Joy Reid ripped for claiming students 'learn a kind of Confederate Race Theory': 'This is nonsense'

MSNBC host Joy Ann-Reid defended critical race theory on Twitter Friday by suggesting adolescents are already being taught a kind of "Confederate Race Theory" in today's schools.

"Open question to those who are afraid of ‘critical race theory’ (which isn’t being taught in K-12 schools; it’s a course offering in law schools, but you clearly are conflating it with the #1619Project.) What do you WANT taught about U.S. slavery and racism? Nothing? Or what?" Reid asked. "Currently, most k-12 students already learn a kind of Confederate Race Theory, whereby the Daughters of the Confederacy long ago imposed a version of history wherein slavery was not so bad and had nothing to do with the civil war, and lynchings and violence never happened," she added.  In Reid's perspective, U.S. educators continue "to omit things like the founders owning slaves, or the facts about the mass extermination of the indigenous," and she bemoaned that schools will continue to engage in a "sanitization of history."