Matt Walsh, Virginia Parents Blast Leftist Indoctrination

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BUCK: You remember it was just a few months ago when critical race theory was all over the headlines, and the left was running for cover. First they were saying there is no critical race theory being taught in schools, and then they said, “Well, you can’t know what critical race theory is unless you have a PhD in it.”

And then they said, “Well, shut up! You’re racist.” That’s basically the way the progression went on the critical race theory discussion. And parents, it turns out, when they find out — and a lot of it happened because the Zoom instruction at home. When they find out what their kids are being taught, they get upset because they don’t want this leftist indoctrination of wokeness starting at age 8, 9, 10, something like that.

That’s what’s happening in a lot of these schools. Loudoun County has been on the front lines of this for a while, and it’s interesting because it’s actually Loudoun and Fairfax counties are next to each other. I lived in D.C. for a number of years. I know these places pretty well. They’re affluent compared to the national average in terms of income. These are actually quite wealthy communities overall and skew a little bit Democrat.

But they are solidly — when the parents actually get involved and know what’s going on — opposed to CRT teaching in school. Well, our buddy Matt Walsh from The Daily Wire — and I haven’t got the full logistics on this yet. But apparently, he has a lease on a property or something in Virginia, so he qualified to go speak at the meeting.

He’s a Virginia resident. That’s all I know is Matt now is apparently a Virginia resident on paper. I’m sure in reality too. But he spoke, he only got 60 seconds, and he spoke at Loudoun County on what he thinks of CRT, and we thought he did a nice job, so we wanted to share it.

WALSH: I would thank you all for allowing me to speak to you tonight. But you tried not to allow it, yet here I am. Now, you only give us 60 seconds, so let me get the point. You are all child abusers. You prey upon impressionable children and indoctrinate them into your insane ideological cult — a cult which holds many fanatical views, but none so deranged as the ideas that boys are girls and girls are boys.

By imposing this vile nonsense on students to the point even of forcing young girls to share locker rooms with boys, you deprive these kids of safety and privacy — and something more fundamental, too, which is truth. If education is not grounded in truth, then it is worthless. Worse, it is poison. You are poison. You are predators.

I can see why you try to stop us from speaking. You know that your ideas are indefensible. You silence the opposing side because you have no argument. You can only hide under your beds like pathetic, little, gutless cowards hoping we shut up and go away. But we won’t! I promise you that. Thank you for your time, and I’ll talk to you again very, very soon.

CLAY: (laughing)

BUCK: I feel like they probably don’t love Matt at that school board, but I think the folks outside cheering for him were fans.

CLAY: Yeah. Look. He lives here in the Nashville area with me, but they changed the rules to assure who was allowed to speak and who was not allowed to speak. And my understanding is he had to have proof of property, basically, in the county in order to be able to speak at the hearing, at the school board there, but this is part of a bigger picture, Buck.

Because we have an election going on in Virginia right now, and Democrats — Terry McAuliffe in particular — are getting super nervous that they are going to lose this election. It would be a massive upset because Virginia has tilted, as you said, towards the Democrat Party over the last decade plus or so. So if Republicans could punch back and Youngkin — who we’re gonna have on the show at some point — could win this election, it would be a major statement going into the midterms.

And they had a debate, and I think this is pretty significant ’cause it ties in with what Matt was saying. They had a debate about whether or not parents should be able to be involved in what their kids are hearing inside of their public schools. I believe we have cut 29 here from that debate, which I think is gonna be a pretty significant statement that was made by Terry McAuliffe as he is trying to win not reelection ’cause you can only serve one term in Virginia, but he’s already been the governor of Virginia. He’s trying to become the governor again. Listen to this.

MCAULIFFE: The parents had the right to veto books, Glenn, not to be knowledged about it, also take them off the shelves. And I’m not gonna let parents come into schools and actually take the books out and make their own decisions!

YOUNGKIN: You vetoed it.

MCAULIFFE: So… Yeah! (snickers) I stopped the bill that… I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach!

BUCK: Oh, I don’t think parents should be talking to the schools that their taxes, by the way, support and pay for.

CLAY: That’s a big statement. He actually understands how business works, unlike almost every Democrat.

BUCK: Very savvy guy. I think he’s got a really interesting political future and obviously beating Terry McAuliffe… (chuckles) I will support a whole range of folks if it means that Terry McAuliffe gets an L. But think about this. Terry McAuliffe just says it, ’cause this is an unguarded moment where he lets out what he really feels.

(summarized) “Oh, these stupid parents telling the school boards what their kids should and shouldn’t be taught when it comes to indoctrination.” Yeah, dude. The parents should be able to weigh in on what their kids are learning in school.

CLAY: Yeah. No. My wife was a guidance counselor was public school here in the Tennessee area, and one of the number one things that dictate whether a school is going to be successful or not, Buck — in fact, the number one thing — is how involved parents are. So, the schools that fail the most are the ones where the painters care the least about what their kids are being instructed.

So what McAuliffe argued there is not only saying the quiet part out loud, but, Buck, it’s actually a direct repudiation of parental involvement in schools, which has been shown to be overwhelming important in terms of having a successful school. So I want parents engaged in what their kids are learning. I know we’re all busy. I’ve got young kids in school.

I know how challenging it can be to make sure and keep tabs on what your kids are learning, but I think, Buck, to your point — and I think this is true. So many parents were stunned by what they saw their kids learning when remote schooling was going on and everybody was locked down that many of them said, “We’ve gotta fight back.”

BUCK: And the media’s tried to come to aid of the critical race theorists and leftist indoctrination machinery of the public school system in this country. Now, look, I know some areas of public schools that are not doing quite this level of stuff. Although it would be surprising to folks, I think, to hear just how many school districts across the country are engaged in teaching some form of what could be called CRT. You know, Chris Rufo — who, of course, the lib education apparatus lives in constant fear of Chris Rufo over at the Manhattan Institute.

CLAY: Yeah, he’s a fantastic guy.

BUCK: He’s got data on this. “Parents in America’s fastest-growing cities oppose critical race theory in public schools by a massive 42-point margin,” he writes. “A strong majority…” This is the other part of it that I think the media really doesn’t want people to know.

“A strong majority of black and Hispanic parents oppose critical race theory and support removing ‘concepts such as white privilege and systemic racism’ from the curriculum.” This is in direct contravention, by the way, of the conventional corporate media wisdom which is, “Only right-wing Trump supporters oppose critical race theory!” No, it’s a lot of just Americans. Like clear majority of that of all backgrounds knowing that they’re teaching this poison, this crap in schools.

CLAY: Yeah, no doubt.