MSNBC host Joy Reid has asserted that opponents of critical race theory are 'steeped in white nationalism' and accused the GOP is radicalizing parents against the controversial curriculum.
'Republicans aren't running an election, they are waging an all out war for power that increasingly is based on and steeped in the Trump cult and even white nationalism and no matter how reckless or dangerous that is they're doing it believing it will move white voters,' Reid said on her show Wednesday.
According to Reid, the movement to ban critical race theory from classrooms across the country is a strategic maneuver from conservatives, who she refers to as the 'GQP' (the GOP and Q Anon), who are utilizing right wing media such as Fox News to radicalize parents.
'Look no further than the ongoing hysteria over race conscious education, what they are shamelessly and falsely misrepresenting as "critical race theory,"' she said. 'Radicalized parent activist across the country are targeting school boards with behind the scenes help from conservative groups.'
MSNBC host Joy Reid (pictured) said the movement to ban CRT across the country is a strategic maneuver from conservatives who are radicalizing parents through Fox News
Fox News host Tucker Carlson (pictured) demanded cameras to be put in every classroom to 'oversee the people teaching your children' in a broadcast earlier this week
'Protestors are swarming those meetings, vowing to revolt against a curriculum they've labeled unacceptable and reverse racist and leading the charge in this fight is, you guessed it, right wing media,' Reid added.
She pointed out that on Tuesday FOX News mentioned CRT more than 100 times before 2pm and said the network's 'fearmongering standard bearer' Tucker Carlson, who she nicknamed 'Tuckums', 'went full 1984' while denouncing what he called 'the greatest threat to our society'.
Reid was referring to the host' broadcast on Tuesday night about CRT where he demanded cameras to be put in every classroom to 'oversee the people teaching your children'.
Carlson showed a clip of a black father attending a school board meeting in Illinois where he criticized CRT, which he branded 'civilization-ending poison'.
The presenter said the theory was 'more than BS', claiming that an 'overwhelming majority of Americans' think that 'this is insane' and 'think you should judge people by what they do, not on the basis of their skin color'.
Carlson said: 'How widespread is it? Well, we can't really be sure until we finally get cameras in the classroom, as we put them on the chests of police officers, until we finally get a civilian review board in every town in America to oversee the people teaching your children, forming their minds - and let's hope we get both of those very soon.'
