1/6 An interesting article about conservative activist Christopher Rufo, who seemingly inspired Trump's bizarre war on "critical race theory." yahoo.com/news/the-man-b…
2/6 A glance at Rufo's website christopherrufo.com tells a familiar grifter story. BA from Georgetown (School of Foreign Service, natch), zero academic background in anything related to critical race theory, and affiliated with the right wing Discovery Institute think tank.
3/6 Rufo has been churning out essays since 2018 denouncing urban policy in cities like Seattle for city-journal.org, published by the right wing Manhattan Institute. Here is a sample of his deep thoughts on the Antifa takeover of Seattle: christopherrufo.com/antifa-makes-i…
4/6 Rufo is not just an untrained policy researcher with no academic or professional background in anything he writes about. He is also a documentary filmmaker who, among other things, made a travel doc for PBS on nomadic Mongolian reindeer herders. documentaryfoundation.org/#home
5/6 The story is familiar. College conservative who got an internship at a right wing think tank, showed promise churning out party line op eds for affiliated right wing journals, and managed to catch the eye of a Trump crony on the warpath against racial diversity workshops.
6/6 There is clearly a critique to be made of corporate diversity trainings. This ain't it. Rufo is a conservative grifter shitting out bad op-eds and lunatic essays, hoping that some Trump Admin official steps on one on the way to work and shows it to the boss. Someone did.
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