LMAO: The AAPF, the leading critical race theory activist organization, has created a strategic plan to mobilize left-wing media and K-12 teachers against me, @ConceptualJames, @AsraNomani, and others.
We have them on the defensive and they are flailing.
It's quite interesting: in the guidebook, critical race theory founder Kimberlé Crenshaw admits that CRT "originated in law schools," but was adopted by "K-12 teachers" and applied to the public school curriculum.
The guide is filled with the hysterical language of the Left: "disinformation," "McCarthyism," "January 6," "boogeyman," "Steve Bannon," "alt-right," "Big Lie," "Koch brothers," "fringe element," "extremist," "voter suppression," "right-wing attacks."
Not a sign of confidence.
They even created an "opposition map" that classifies "middle-class white parents" as "die hard" enemies who uphold "white-washed schools" and must be defeated.
We know they're really serious because they've created "humorous memes" and non-ableist Instagram templates that will definitely catch on with the youth!
It's truly a work of art that the "white conservative activists" driving "fear of critical race theory" include two black guys, an Asian guy, and an Indian woman.
It's amazing how fast multiracial whiteness is growing.
The key takeaway: critical race theory is driven by left-wing Boomers who make PowerPoints and host conferences in the universities and public school bureaucracies. They control the institutions, but they can't develop a persuasive argument and they absolutely can't meme.
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The Right must be more selective in the people it welcomes into the firmament. Conservatives have been locked out of elite institutions for so long, many will accept any celebrity that signals opposition to the Left—even a common pimp with a social media following.
There is a real danger that the Right becomes a dumping ground where failed celebrities land. While we should welcome high-quality defectors, we must have enough self-confidence to draw boundaries and reject those who simply want to farm the Right for clicks and power.
Two things happening here:
1. The Right's organic institutions have difficulty producing viable elites.
2. The Right's media figures feel pressure to chase the algorithm and a) turn themselves into Catturd-style slop; b) engage with human bait such as Andrew Tate for virality.
The Left is spiritually stuck in 1963. Their entire politics is a reenactment. Boomer libs want to live in an endless loop of the civil rights era, but America has moved on and we do not need to indulge their fantasy of permanent adolescent rebellion.
We've had the Great Society and the Civil Rights Act—which, in fact, led to systematic discrimination on behalf of minorities—for 60 years. We've spent trillions on the Left's social utopia. But they still pretend they're "marching on Washington" with the dispossessed.
These people are incapable of taking responsibility for the regime they have created. They can only imagine themselves in opposition because they have no desire to grapple with the failures of their policies and the reasons for continuing inequalities. It's stupid songs forever.
The cause here is noble, but the implementation, like the related executive order, is a misstep. The whole point of the "abolish DEI" campaign is to stop having special carve-outs, programs, and commitments on the basis of race or ethnoreligious identity. The better approach is to have a single colorblind standard that will fight harassment and discrimination against any group. We can have a Task Force on Campus Equality, which, in practice, will address the significant antisemitism problem, while retaining the higher principle.
I laid out the basic argument with Jenin Younes in the Free Press, related to the Antisemitism Awareness Act: thefp.com/p/dont-expand-….
Supporters of this initiative should ask themselves: How is it reasonable to support a Task Force on Antisemitism while opposing an Ibram Kendi-style Task Force on Anti-Black Racism (i.e., DEI)? And by the same principle, how is it reasonable to support a Task Force on Antisemitism without also supporting a Task Force of Anti-White Racism and a Task Force on Anti-Asian Racism, both of which are widespread on campuses? How is it consistent for the administration to abolish DEI, then establish a special task force for one, rather than all, of these groups?
It's a serious problem, as I've showed in my reporting, but all of it can be addressed by delineating the behavior of the perpetrators—harassment, disruption, occupation, support for terror, etc.—in a colorblind manner.
EXCLUSIVE: Kamala Harris plagiarized at least a dozen sections of her criminal-justice book, Smart on Crime, according to a new investigation. The current vice president even lifted material from Wikipedia.
We have the receipts. 🧵
The investigation was conducted by Dr. Stefan Weber, a famed Austrian "plagiarism hunter" who has taken down politicians in the German-speaking world. We independently confirmed multiple violations, which are comparable in severity to the plagiarism found in former Harvard president Claudine Gay's doctoral thesis.
We can begin with a passage in which Harris discusses high school graduation rates. Here, she lifted verbatim language from an uncited AP/NBC News report:
EXCLUSIVE: Northwestern Law Review published a special issue featuring only black women. But, according to material unearthed in a new lawsuit, the issue was rife with plagiarism.
This is how DEI corrupts academic standards. 🧵
Lawyer Jonathan Mitchell has filed an updated lawsuit against Northwestern Law School and its far-left former dean, @DBRodriguez5, for alleged racial discrimination in hiring. As part of this complaint, Mitchell identifies significant plagiarism by a prominent DEI hire and the law school's DEI-obsessed academic journal.
@DBRodriguez5 According to the lawsuit, Northwestern hired Myriam Gilles, a black woman, and, apparently, overlooked Professor Gilles's massive plagiarism, because, Mitchell alleges, the university prioritized diversity over merit.
EXCLUSIVE: We have discovered that migrants are, in fact, eating cats in Ohio. We have verified, with multiple witnesses and visual cross-references, that African migrants in Dayton, the next city over from Springfield, barbecued these cats last summer. christopherrufo.com/p/the-cat-eate…
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