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Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe claimed that critical race theory is “as important ” as math and English education in public schools, speaking on a C-SPAN broadcast in 2019.
McAuliffe has sought to distract from criticism of CRT indoctrination of Virginia’s schools, in the wake of a controversy that revealed that Loudoun County school board sought to cover up a sexual assault in a girl’s bathroom carried out by a transgender student.
Journalist and CRT critic Christopher Rufo published McAuliffe’s candid (and non-campaign) explanation of his views. McAuliffe argued that children are young as kindergarten-age should be subjected to critical race theory indoctrination, ensuring that they know no real alternative to the far-left religion now widely taught in American colleges and universities.