Republicans know that triggering their base’s fear of being called racist is a good way to win elections. That’s how Glenn Youngkin, the GOP governor-elect of Virginia won his race — by telling voters that their kids would be taught “critical race theory” in school.

There are a couple of problems with this. Number one, critical race theory is a law school-level course that itsn’t being taught to “kids” anywhere in America. But number two, it is nothing like the way that Republicans portray it. It is, at its root, an examination of how racial inequity in America has affected everything since the founding of the country.

Its purpose is not to call everything and everyone racist; it is to explain how race has played a factor in things that many Americans don’t even know they’re still participating in. If your name is Jason, have you ever had a job application thrown in the trash as soon as a hiring manager saw it? Someone named Jamal may have a different answer than you.

Unfortunately, Republicans like Eric Trump’s wife Lara see teaching anyone this as “indoctrination.” It’s not, of course, but that doesn’t stop people like her from calling out how horrible a thing that isn’t actually being taught anywhere is for children.

Now she’s calling on Joe Biden to “apologize” for CRT, as though he thought it up and issued a mandate for it to be taught in public schools from kindergarten on.

We wish Lara and the rest of the Republican party would take a good hard look at why the lessons of CRT are even needed, because the existence of a course like this is demonstrated as necessary by people’s reactions to it.

“Sorry I made you feel bad about being a racist, Lara.” pic.twitter.com/NW408UfkAc

— The Political Flare (@politicalflares) November 6, 2021

People on Twitter were disgusted:

Wow, there was so much wrong in that short clip. CRT isn't taught in K-12 and even if it was it doesn't teach what she thinks it does. she doesn't even know what it is.

— Troj (@troj21) November 2, 2021

1) She couldn't define indoctrination.
2) She cannot explain CRT anyway.
3) As a teacher IF I could "Indoctrinate" your children then they would:
A) Come to school every day.
B) Be a straight-A student.
C) Bring me coffee every morning.

— David Huggins (@DH_BostonPops) November 2, 2021

And I want Lara to apologize to every single family torn apart at the border those last four years, and if any of them want to take a pop at her, let them at it.

— Cosmic Doomrock, Now Double Jabbed (@death_by_meteor) November 2, 2021

Wait… Has any one of these alarmists provided a list of which schools are teaching children critical race theory?

Of course not. There are none.

— Derek Smalls’ moustache (@SmallsMoustache) November 2, 2021

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