Chris Rufo just dropped this propaganda film, “Critical Race Theory.”
I commented with a link to my Substack post so his viewers might read my piece exposing his manipulation and lies; he deleted my comment within seconds.
I guess I’ll have to expose them here.🧵
First, the link to the video. I suggest you check it out yourself at some point; I’ll just highlight the worst bits here.
Don’t forget to leave it the thumb rating it deserves.
Rufo, like Lindsay, is now incorporating the idea that the (Jewish) Frankfurt School engineered CRT to promote division between White and Black Americans so that they could overthrow White rule and install a Communist government. This is literal neo-Nazism, plain as day.
Marcuse and his student Angela Davis are cast as the masterminds behind this project in the post-1968 U.S.
Rufo doesn't define CRT. He just tells you what words it uses to mask its Neo-Marxism: "Equity," "Social Justice," etc.
"This is deliberate."
Here Rufo flexes the CV of bullshit and disinformation he's been building over the past year.
Rufo layers his bullshit: many claims here are even more misleading than their counterparts in the City Journal pieces. The goalpost shifts are imperceptible if you don't look for them.
Now we get something closer to a definition. Rufo says the "premise" of CRT is that, given the racist history of the US, we should examine the role racism may continue to play on a societal level. TRUE.
Its "conclusion" -- intersectional Marxist woke revolution. FALSE.
Finally: the war on CRT Rufo wants to fight on four fronts.
1) Public policy - in many cases a front for banning all discussion of sexism and racism from the classroom, given the def. of "race/sex stereotyping" from the EO.
2) Unconstitutional - renders (1) totally futile.
**That is, if (1) is just supposed to ban things that are already illegal, and over which you're already suing, what actual purpose can it accomplish?
Well, you can try to use it to ban concepts, like legislators have done in TX, OK, and TN.**
"The stakes of this fight are incredibly high," Rufo says, as he claims CRT constitutes a genuine existential threat to the United States in every manner, seeking to abolish property rights, free speech, equal protection under the law, free enterprise, and federalism itself.
"Truth and justice are on our side," he says. "If we can muster the courage, we will win."
There's nothing left to add but this reminder: [FIN]
This is a thread on the 2022 right-wing documentary UNCLE TOM II, a film based entirely on the worldview and source material of the John Birch Society.
It has been promoted by Charlie Kirk & Jack Posobiec as proof that MLK & the civil rights movement were secretly Communist. 🧵
1. Leading up to MLK Day this year, Kirk & Posobiec decided they were going to abandon the standard Republican ritual (quoting King out of context, depicting the civil rights hero as a colorblind conservative).
Instead, they wanted to vilify MLK and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
2. On the eve of MLK Day, Posobiec was promoting UNCLE TOM II and its narrator Chad O. Jackson as authoritative sources on King's connections to "Communists."
Kirk had already promoted UNCLE TOM II on Real America's Voice in 2022 after the film was released.
Because everyone is talking about Ibram Kendi: it is so deeply upsetting to me that when reading groups and book lists were popping up after George Floyd was murdered it was always the work of people like Kendi & DiAngelo. Imagine if everybody read Charles Mills instead 🥲
Robin DiAngelo made a shit ton of money telling other white people that white people are basically incurably racist and Ibram Kendi made a shit ton of money basically claiming to be the sole arbiter of what racism truly is and refused to acknowledge any critiques of his views
I get a bit more detailed with my critiques here, but I ultimately do have a lot more to say, been wanting to write something about this and maybe I will soon (if any media sites/mags are interested, DM me!)
Chris Rufo took a break from suing college students for "political violence" (read: getting spit on his shoes) to argue that conservatives should turn to Nixon "as our guide" in mobilizing a "counterrevolution" against things like CRT and DEI.
A quick thread on Nixon & Rufo 🧵
It is interesting that Rufo venerates Nixon, because Rufo likes to talk about how he is deeply opposed to racism, often pointing to the fact that he is in an interracial marriage and has biracial children.
Nixon was deeply racist. Ex 1: Nixon & Reagan discuss African diplomats
Being charitable, you might think that the Reagan phone call is not enough to call Nixon racist.
Ex 2: Nixon explains that, while he is against abortion in some cases, he thinks it is necessary to prevent the birth of interracial ("a black and a white") children.
The YouTube channel for Larry Elder’s documentary films uploaded the John Birch Society propaganda film ANARCHY USA, which claims the civil rights movement “is simply part of a worldwide movement, organized and directed by Communists, to enslave all mankind”
A thread, w/ clips🧵
ANARCHY USA was written & directed in 1966 by JBS member G. Edward Griffin, a prolific propagandist & first-rate quack. Griffin believes that HIV “doesn’t even exist” & that cancer is a dietary deficiency that can be cured with “an essential food compound” mediamatters.org/glenn-beck/who…
This upload of ANARCHY USA has become one of the most popular videos on the Uncle Tom YouTube channel. It has been viewed over 200k times in just eight months, whereas the film has been viewed fewer than 40k times in seven years on the official John Birch Society YouTube channel.
"Cultural Marxism" has entered mainstream political discourse, appearing in recent speeches by DeSantis and Hawley, Fox News broadcasts, and right-wing media from Breitbart to Ben Shapiro.
This is a thread, with clips, on the 25-year history of "Cultural Marxism" on the Right 🧵
1. We begin with the arch-conservative activist and TV host, Bill Lind.
He began his 1998 talk "The Origins of Political Correctness" by saying college campuses have become so authoritarian that he'd be put "literally on trial" for joking about women and shopping carts
2. Lind says political correctness is seen as something to laugh at, but in fact "it's deadly serious. It is the great disease of our century, the disease that has left tens of millions of people dead... the disease of ideology."