Rep. Maloney argues about Fox News, critical race theory at town hall event

Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) got into it Sunday with a questioner at a town hall event in Dutchess County over the teaching of critical race theory in K-12 schools, at one point claiming the controversy had been whipped up by “a bunch of smart demagogues at Fox News and elsewhere.”

In video from the event in Hopewell Junction seen by the Post, an unidentified man asks Maloney: “What’s your stance on critical race theory being taught to our kids? I want to know why you think it might be a good idea to teach kids that, black and white, you’re suppressed and you’re the suppressor?” The man goes on to reference Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech and its hope that Americans would one day be judged “not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” “I think somebody’s trying to get you all mad about this for no reason,” Maloney begins before his questioner cuts him off.