This is a pretty flimsily supported conspiracy theory that (of course) blames the Koch brothers for the public interest in and resistance to CRT.

How does it do that? Well …
It says (several grafs deep) that 28 think tanks with “known ties” to the Koch Network produced 79 articles on CRT in schools during a whole year (!!!)
“Known ties” is a pretty well known rhetorical trick to try to insinuate without specificity some shadowy directive from on high.

A “known tie” could be just about anything. A one time donation. A shared board seat. Etc.

You see this frequently in the right’s Soros fever dreams
And it’s pretty obvious this journalistic sleight of hand was done with full intent to deceive because the byline never really spells out what known ties are.

It’s a way to draw a line without actually showing the work.
Finally 79 sounds like a lot. Broken up between all 28 orgs, that’s about 3 articles each. That’s … not a lot. Certainly not enough to indicate a moral panic or an on high directive.

My bet is also that NBC alone has written more articles on crt in just this calendar year.
Is NBC a Koch front? Unlikely, but I’m betting if I searched hard enough, I could include them in a group with “ties” to the Koch network.

Oh shit, one minute of googling, here’s a “tie”

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Incredible sound bites from Channel 4, wait until the end.
This is captain trips level fuckery
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Like this right off the bat.

Literally corporals and PFCs on smokedecks in Afghanistan 10 years ago anticipated this.

Someone with some knowledge and depth needs a sit down with Biden, this was truly just George doing him a favor. Image
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