In an interview with the Atlantic's Mollly Jong-Fast, Acosta said that Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin's anti-CRT policy was like a Soviet-Style police state.
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Yes, according to CNN's Jim Acosta, banning Marxist teaching is the exact same thing as Soviet Communism.
I seem to remember Glenn Youngkin campaigning in a fleece vest in Virginia. He was running as a different kind of Republican.
I was told there was going to be a vest, not a Soviet-Style police state.
This is all in response to Youngkin's ban on the teaching of Critical Race Theory in public schools.
Just some weird policy that government schools shouldn't be teaching racist, anti-American, Marxist garbage, and that is enough to call him a Soviet?
From the Daily Wire:
The state's newly imposed Critical Race Theory (CRT) ban shows how "the culture wars are also contributing to the erosion of democracy," said Acosta during the special "Democracy In Peril," which aired at 7 p.m. "The new culture wars are impacting our laws. And some experts fear, they could be weakening our democracy, just as badly as the Big Lie," the Nazi-era slogan that CNN applies to questioning the 2020 presidential election.
Acosta accused Youngkin of "pitting citizen against citizen" immediately after playing a clip of the governor promising to remove "inherently divisive teaching practices out of the schools." Acosta seemed outraged by removing the racially polarizing CRT curriculum from taxpayer-funded schools — the chief campaign promise made by Youngkin and Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears — which Acosta said violates "the traditional conservative tenets of liberty, anti-censorship and freedom."
Acosta also slammed Youngkin for setting up a process for parents to complain if public school teachers violate the law by teaching racially divisive concepts, such as claiming all members of one race inherently oppress all members of other races. Acosta likened the measure to the Texas Heartbeat law, a pro-life protection that allows citizens to sue abortionists who perform an abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, usually around the sixth week of pregnancy. "How concerned should we be, about these laws that seem to be catching on of, citizens ratting each other out?" he asked Jong-Fast, adding they encourage "canceling your neighbor across the street or next door."
Democracy is doomed because Youngkin is giving parents power over their kids' education! Oh no!
Anti-American and racist curriculum is banned from the school! How will the nation survive?
Parents are allowed to report if their schools are violating the ban on CNN and Acosta seems to think this is the same thing as a Soviet police-state.
Acosta is a clown.
