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26 Jul, 10 tweets, 4 min read
Through his reporting on critical race theory over the past year, @realchrisrufo has established himself as one of the most influential GOP activists today. But is there any reason to trust him as a journalist?

My latest, a deep dive for @DiscoverFlux
flux.community/samuel-hoadley…
Rather than make a thread highlighting all the individual debunkings in this article (there are far too many for that to be practicable), I'm going to post links to further debunkings that it doesn't cover. Starting with Rufo's "briefing book" on CRT:
Quick clip encapsulating Rufo's hypocrisy:
Another classic lie; gotta love the Nazis' favorite trope tying communism to a scapegoated race who's coming to steal the white man's property and destroy his civilization!
Debunking Rufo's attempt to debunk the Washington Post's expose of more lies he promoted:
Breaking down the lies in Rufo's video on CRT:
Explaining why it is not an exaggeration to say that the video contains literal neo-Nazi conspiracy theories, irrespective of whether Rufo intends to spread them
One of Rufo's most obvious lies, this time about @sandylocks, very disturbing how his followers still ate this one up:
We'll wrap it up here, with an excellent demonstration of how people ought to handle Rufo if they interact with him.
Here is a good set of tweets where Rufo openly admits his disregard for truth and strategy of bad faith manipulation of language. Can we stop taking him seriously now, media? Please?

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"The left does not have an explanation for Asian American achievement from a critical race theory lens." The left also lacks an explanation of the pancreas from a critical race theory lens. Theories have specific purposes.

I just bought the e-book. Let's eat.🧵
Oh GOd. You'll never guess who authored the foreword. Rhymes with Shmimmy Momcepts.
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20 Jul
Holy shit. Rufo is either actually remarkably stupid or has even less faith in his audience’s will to think for themselves than I thought.

Crenshaw is lamenting this fact, not endorsing it. This is beyond obvious from reading the essay.
At the very least this tweet reveals Rufo did not subject his interpretation to even the slightest amount of questioning. This reading of Crenshaw would entail that Shelby Steele, Charles Murray, and Bo Winegard are critical race theorists.
Seriously, read the article. Crenshaw (@sandylocks) does not mince words. Her observations ring even truer today:

“Make no mistake about it: We are in a full-scale race-baiting campaign. It is well-organized, and it could be effective if we fail to mine the lessons [of history]”
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3 Jul
Crenshaw getting to the heart of the issue: ignorance. It is this ignorance that engenders complacency as the norm for otherwise progressive people when it comes to racial justice in the US.
And that ignorance is no accident. Those who benefit most under the status quo have absolutely no interest in teaching the next generation facts about their nation's history that might lead them to endorse a radical restructuring of the socioeconomic order.
And this must all be situated within the reform-retrenchment dialectic of our history. Antiracist efforts are demonized in order to justify White anti-democratic control.
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2 Jul
My first piece in ⁦@washingtonpost⁩. washingtonpost.com/outlook/critic…
My conclusion:

It’s plain. Today’s attacks on critical race theory aren’t meant to rebut its main arguments. They’re meant to paint it with such broad brushstrokes that any basic effort to reckon with the causes and impact of racism in our society can be demonized and dismissed.
As if you needed any further evidence:
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30 Jun
Remember that time Rufo went full Klansman?
And then people were like, hey cmon buddy, chill out

And then Rufo grabbed a pitchfork
You know you have a problem when @FreeBlckThought is the only person acting somewhat sane in your mentions
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