Thread by @deonteleologist

This interview of Rufo from @JoyAnnReid was an endlessly entertaining, exemplary piece of counter-disinformation. The Right is brilliant at one thing: baiting the Left into accepting their framing and vocabulary 🧵

First, Reid exposes Rufo's distortion of Kendi & of "whiteness."

To anticipate a fair objection: It is true that CRT has become influential outside of law schools and exists now in depts of Sociology, Education, and Philosophy.

But even if we allow Robin DiAngelo to count as CRT, then what? Do we denounce History bc Holocaust deniers exist?

Reid asks: Where did the term "whiteness" come from?

Rufo doesn't acknowledge that the racial sense of the term was invented by white supremacists. In fact he doesn't really answer her question at all, instead tries to make it about the Cupertino story he lied to the world about

For more on Rufo's dishonesty in reporting the Cupertino story, see the this tweet and those preceding it in the thread:

https://twitter.com/deonteleologist/status/1407493916639645696?s=20

Reid goes on the offensive against Rufo, which he isn't used to; he spends no time playing defense. This is because his arguments cannot be defended in good faith, since they rely on equivocation between CRT proper and the "CRT" he has erected as the Right's boogeyman of straw.

And now @JoyAnnReid has given us helpful language to distinguish CRT proper from the Right's boogeyman of straw: the latter ought to be named "Christopher Rufo Theory."

Brilliant. This is how you expose bullshitters without boosting them. Take notes, liberal media.