Thread by @deonteleologist

Rufo’s latest piece, an op-ed in the WSJ. It’s largely a mashup of many talking points he espoused on his own website and in City Journal.

The feature that stands out: the piece cites no evidence; there is but one broken hyperlink referencing the NYT. 🧵wsj.com/articles/battl…

Rufo outlines the shape his argument will take: he will argue that CRT is not a benign academic concept, that the anti-CRT crowd are not a buncha white nationalists, and that anti-CRT bills aren’t about teaching history.

Ah yes, CRT is a “radical ideology that seeks to use race as a means of moral, social and political revolution. You may read this charitably and think CRT sounds a lot like the civil rights movement. But WSJ subscribers probably just think [[COMMIE ALERT]]

Once again Kendi has not done us any favors with that piece, which was silly and obviously catnip for the Right.

But invoking W. F. Tate IV was a new one I hadn’t seen Rufo use. Note Rufo replaces CLAIMS to X, Y, Z w/ “constitutional principles of freedom and equality”

Rufo’s just missing the point here. Liberal media outlets don’t think every parent in Loudoun was just waiting for a chance to unleash their inner racist at a school board meeting.

The point is that the right’s framing of “CRT in schools” is race-baiting demagoguery a la JBS.

And here Rufo is doing what he does best: LYING.

Receipts, Rufo.

Reminds me of the time he couldn’t go 5 minutes on @JoyAnnReid’s show without contradicting himself

Of course the issue isn’t going away, Chris, because then your salary would, too.

Highly recommend reading through @JeffreyASachs’ whole thread. His essays in @ArcDigi breaking down the awful legislative proposals in which the CRT moral panic has culminated are all fantastic. Essential reading for our times