A Virginia county’s fierce debate over teaching children controversial critical race theory escalated this week at a school board meeting where a mother who survived the purge in Maoist China condemned what she called an effort to turn classrooms into ‘indoctrination camps’.
Watch a brave parent and Virginia mom who survived Maoist China eviscerates school board’s critical race theory push – YouTube who grew up in Mao’s China point out all of the identical traits b/n the Cultural Revolution and what LCPS, and really every school system, are doing through the use of CRT.
This Virginia mom endured Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution before immigrating to the U.S. ripped a Virginia school board at a public meeting Tuesday over its stubborn support of the controversial critical race theory.
“I’ve been very alarmed by what’s going on in our schools,” Xi Van Fleet told the Loudoun County School Board members. “You are now teaching, training our children to be social justice warriors and to loathe our country and our history.”
She likened CRT, which critics deride as a form of “neo-racism,” to China’s Cultural Revolution, a Mao-led purge that left between 500,000 and 20 million people dead from 1966 to 1976. She was six years old when the revolution started. The estimates vary greatly and many details have been shrouded in secrecy for decades.
Xi Van Fleet, who fled China at the age of 26 before settling in the United States, told members of the Loudoun County School Board that she is ‘very alarmed’ by the teaching of CRT, which she says ‘trains children to be social justice warriors and to loathe their country and their history.’
”Critical Race Theory has its roots in cultural Marxism.
It should have no place in our school.’
‘The Communist regime used the same critical theory to divide people.
The only difference is they used class instead of race,’ she stated,
adding that CRT was ‘neo-racist’.
Virginia mom Xi Van Fleet, who grew up in Maoist China,
Slammed Critical Race Theory (CRT) during a contentious
school board meeting on Wednesday Jun9th.
“We were taught to denounce our heritage, and the Red Guards destroyed anything that is not communist…statues, books and anything else. We were also encouraged to report on each other, just like the Student Equity Ambassador program and the bias reporting system,’ Van Fleet added, referring to new initiatives set up in Loudoun County public schools.
‘I felt like it’s such a free country, meaning I have free access to all sorts of information – books on both sides of the issues,’ she stated.
However, now, Van Fleet says she feels that some of that freedom is being taken away, saying:’ I can’t really just say what I mean, even though the other side can say whatever. To me, and to a lot of Chinese, it is heartbreaking that we escaped communism and now we experience communism here.’
Over the past year, numerous public and private schools across the US have opted to incorporate CRT into their teachings – sparking a nationwide debate in which Loudoun County has emerged as a flashpoint.
The theory asserts that ‘institutions are inherently racist and that race itself…
is a socially constructed concept that is used by white people to further their economic and political interests at the expense of people of color’, according to Texas A&M University professor Tommy Curry.
While Loudoun County Public School officials say they are not officially using CRT in their classrooms, they have pledged to push for ‘equity’ and have begun using many CRT ‘buzzwords and concepts’.
That decision has angered many locals in Loudoun County – which is located just outside of Washington, DC, and is the wealthiest county in the entire country.
Lilit Vanetsyan, who teaches in neighboring Fairfax County, Virginia, Also speaking at the Loudoun County School Board meeting on Wednesday night.
Van Fleet’s criticism was echoed by teacher Lilit Vanetsyan, who in her own fiery address Wednesday night accused school board members of enabling teachers with radically liberal lesson plans at the expense of students’ education and mental health.
Vanetsyan, who teaches in neighboring Fairfax County, Virginia, also spoke at Wednesday night’s meeting in Loudoun County – addressing not just school board members but also parents and students.
‘Parents, the longer that you wait and don’t have your child’s schools accountable, gives these guys more time to dictate what’s best for your child’s physical, mental, and emotional health,’ Vanetsyan declared.
She then also directly addressed students, saying: ‘You are on the front lines of these indoctrination camps. Challenge the staff when you are presented with a ludicrous statement, and do not allow anybody to tell you that you cannot accomplish anything because of your skin color, or to hate yourself because of your skin color.
‘Students, it is up to you to be the next generation of victims, or victors.’
China’s Cultural Revolution: A shutdown of debate, dissent and free speech that left 20M dead from 1966 to 1976
The Cultural Revolution was a violent political purge that occurred in China from 1966 – 1976.
During that time, Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, tried to purge remnants of capitalism by shutting down debate, dissent and free speech.
For ten years, Chairman Mao’s followers burned books, tore down statues and murdered millions loyal to the ‘Four Olds’ — old ideas, culture, customs and habits.He envisioned a ‘Communist Utopia’ with a massive redistribution of wealth – but what occurred was a 10-year campaign that brought widespread suffering and a destruction of much of China’s ancient cultural norms.
Mao pushed for the formation of ‘Red Guards’ – groups of militant university and high school students who were put into paramilitary units.
The young recruits were fed propaganda and were relatively easy to influence because of their young age. Their goal was to destroy symbols of China’s pre-communist past – known as ‘The Four Olds’: Old Ideas, Old Culture,
Old Habits, and Old Customs.
The New York Times reports that ‘Red Guards formed large groups that targeted political enemies for abuse and public humiliation and that ‘they carried out widespread destruction of historical sites and cultural relics.’
Roger Lewis wrote in The Daily Mail in 2016 that ‘Mao could see the young were impressionable, easy to manipulate and eager to fight.
The so-called Red Guards were a ‘screaming, self-righteous band’ numbering many millions, who went on the rampage.
The Red Guards frequently broke into homes and destroyed paintings and books. They were also required to report dissidents, and were even permitted to inflict bodily harm on them. Universities were their chief targets, with the Red Guards turning into baying mobs who would publicly try to destroy those with differing points of view.
Red Guards reading Mao’s Little Red Book in Beijing, 1966…
‘It is not far-fetched to compare the methods of this ‘woke movement’ to those of Chairman Mao’s Red Guards, who terrorized the Chinese people half a century ago.’
‘Hounding of people is strikingly reminiscent of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, which wrecked much of what remained of the country’s ancient civilization,’
he wrote.
‘The only way someone accused of thought-crime could escape punishment was through public confession, ‘re-education’ and abject apology in so-called ‘struggle sessions’, in which they were humiliated and tormented by their accusers,’ Gray continued.
‘Tragically, the woke movement has reinvented this vile ritual, with teachers, journalists, professors and others seeking to hang on to their jobs by desperately begging forgiveness,’ he concluded.
The Cultural Revolution left between 500,000 and 20 million people dead in the space of a single decade.
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Vanetsyan’s speech comes after educator Monica Gill – who teaches AP Government in Loudoun County, Virginia – told Fox News that the school district’s push for ‘inclusion’ has ironically fueled further division in her upper-crust community.
‘We’re told that we’re living in a county that’s suffering from systemic racism and I think that that whole notion has done nothing but damage our community and our school since they began pushing equity,’ she said back in April.
‘I can tell you, one thing that’s for sure, it has been disruptive because there are parents who disagree with this ideology, there are teachers who disagree with it, there are students who disagree with it — and it is harmful,’ she stated.
Loudoun parent Scott Mineo has started the Parents Against Critical Race Theory website, which tracks the use of CRT in classrooms.
Monica Gill – told Fox News that the school district’s push for ‘inclusion’ has ironically fueled further division in her upper- crust community.According to one post on the website, there is a slide available on Loudoun County Public School’s Equity Partner’s websites, ‘Racial Equity Tools’,
which details characteristics of ‘White Supremacy Culture’.
Characteristics include ‘worship of the written word’, ‘paternalism’, and ‘either/or thinking’.
Meanwhile, some parents have even claimed that opponents of CRT are ‘racist’.
Last week, TV cameras caught the moment that a parent was flipped off by a neighbor as she explained how friends and family had turned on her because she spoke out against the teaching of CRT.
Mom-of-two Jessica Mendez told Fox News that she has been branded a racist after attempting to block the controversial lessons.
‘I had my own family criticize me openly, and asked me you know, what’s wrong with me? You know, why didn’t I understand? , told the interviewer for Fox News.
But during the interview, a neighbor could be seen walking past in the background where she raised two middle fingers at Mendez and the camera.
‘I thought that I had a good friend,’ Mendez added.
‘I’m really hurt right now because I thought that we had a rapport, that
I could be conservative, and she could be liberal, and we could still be friends.
I guess I was wrong.’
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What is critical race theory?
The concept dividing the nation which asserts that US institutions are inherently racist
The fight over critical race theory in schools has escalated in the United States over the last year.
The theory has sparked a fierce nationwide debate in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests around the country over the last year and the introduction of the 1619 Project.
The 1619 Project, which was published by the New York Times in 2019 to mark 400 years since the first enslaved Africans arrived on American shores, reframes American history by ‘placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the center of the US narrative’.
The debate surrounding critical race theory regards concerns that some children are being indoctrinated into thinking that white people are inherently racist or sexist.
Those against critical race theory have argued it reduces people to the categories of ‘privileged’ or ‘oppressed’ based on their skin color.
Supporters, however, say the theory is vital to eliminating racism because it examines the ways in which race influences American politics, culture and the law.