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by lazyeye 1559 days ago
I remember watching recently a discussion on CNN about how Virginia voters were white supremacists because the CNN-preferred candidate had lost the state election. Note: These would be the same voters that voted for Obama in previous elections.

The media is garbage, pure and simple.

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I am not educated enough about Virginia candidates to weigh in on the truth of if he is a white supremacist. I can say that your logic is garbage. The governor got fewer votes in Virginia than either McCain or Romney did when they ran against Obama. It's possible that everyone who voted in the gubernatorial race voted for the candidate of the same party in every presidential election going back at least that far.
No, the issue in Virginia has to do with Asian students being discriminated against by schools like Thomas Jefferson High because they are overrepresented at these prestigious schools.

Democrat educators tried to introduce racial quotas to increase the number of non Asian students and the national media called any resistance to those quotas white supremacy

This became a whole controversy and then the pandemic took place and parents started to realize these racist ideas were also being taught in the curricula, and the Democrat candidate committed political seppuku by telling parents they had no right to decide what the curriculum is

That's why Glenn Youngkin is governor

If the winning candidate is a white supremacist, then it is perfectly reasonable to prefer a different candidate, and wonder if those votes may also be white supremacists as an election is a reflection of the population, and often people that agree with these ideas were also voters for Obama, yes.
Was the winning candidate a white supremacist?