The fight against critical race theory is reaching a crescendo. My colleagues at the @ManhattanInst have created some incredible resources for parents and policymakers. Let's review.🧵
First, the great @JamesRCopland has created the gold standard for state legislation, designing a bill that promotes transparency, gives parents an opt-out, and protects students against race essentialism and compelled speech.
manhattan-institute.org/copland-critic…
Second, @CharlesFLehman has released this toolkit for parents, defining the key terms of critical race theory, explaining how parents can get organized, and providing specific action items for success.
manhattan-institute.org/woke-schooling…
Third, political scientist Michael Hartney published this paper showing that moving off-cycle school board elections on-cycle would empower parents and put an important check on the teachers unions, which are promoting critical race theory nationwide.
manhattan-institute.org/revitalizing-l…
Finally, I've written a CRT Briefing Book for parents and policymakers that defines the ideology, catalogs all of my investigative reporting, and provides language that you can use to be successful in the fight against critical race theory.
christopherrufo.com/crt-briefing-b…
I'll be in New York this Friday to host a Manhattan Institute event on critical race theory in schools and corporations, featuring @JamesRCopland, @pauldrossi, @AsraNomani, and @VivekGRamaswamy. Event details here:
manhattan-institute.org/deconstructing…

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14 Oct
SCOOP: @Walmart has launched a critical race theory training program that denounces the United States as a "white supremacy system" and teaches white hourly-wage workers that they are guilty of "white supremacy thinking" and "internalized racial superiority."

Buckle up.🧵
Walmart launched the program with the Racial Equity Institute in 2018 and has trained more than 1,000 employees on the core principles of critical race theory, including "intersectionality," "internalized racial oppression,"and "white anti-racist development."
The program begins with the claim that the United States is a "white supremacy system," designed by white Europeans for maintaining "white skin access to power and privilege." Whites are thus subjected to "racist conditioning" that indoctrinates them into "white supremacy."
Read 11 tweets
13 Oct
SCOOP: @TerryMcAuliffe claims that critical race theory has "never been taught in Virginia," but I've obtained a memo from the State Superintendent directly promoting CRT, calling it "an important analytic tool" for addressing "power and privilege" in all Virginia schools.
And here's another one: the Virginia Department of Education is currently promoting an initiative called "anti-racism in education," which features the critical race guru Ibram X. Kendi and explicitly deriving their definitions from "critical race theory."
virginiaisforlearners.virginia.gov/anti-racism-in…
This all began in 2015, when @TerryMcAuliffe was Virginia governor and initiated the first documented statewide Department of Education training program on "critical race theory." It's expanded through the Northam administration—and must be stopped.
christopherrufo.com/mcaullifes-crt…
Read 4 tweets
13 Oct
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.
Read 7 tweets
4 Oct
BREAKING: Attorney General Merrick Garland has instructed the FBI to mobilize against parents who oppose critical race theory in public schools, citing "threats."

The letter follows the National School Board Association's request to classify protests as "domestic terrorism."
The Biden administration is rapidly repurposing federal law enforcement to target political opposition.

They want to reclassify dissent as "disinformation" and "domestic terrorism," justifying an unprecedented intervention, both directly and in partnership with tech companies.
Neither the Attorney General's memo nor the full Justice Department press release cites any significant, credible threat.

This is a blatant suppression tactic, designed to dissuade citizens from participating in the democratic process at school boards.

justice.gov/opa/pr/justice…
Read 5 tweets
29 Sep
The public school system is not a "free marketplace of ideas"; it's a state-run monopoly with compulsory power over children.

Voters and state legislators should be the ultimate authority over public schools—not the teachers unions and permanent bureaucracy.
Even under the most stringent libertarian philosophy, monopoly conditions justify, even demand, intervention.

If public schools are promoting race essentialism, collective guilt, and state-sanctioned racism, voters are absolutely right to restrict it.
Libertarians support school choice, which is a noble long-term goal.

In the meantime, however, we must make decisions within the current paradigm, in which public schools control 90 percent of K-12 education.

Prohibiting state-sanctioned racism is the bare minimum.
Read 4 tweets
22 Sep
SCOOP: @CVSHealth CEO Larry Merlo earned 618 times more than the median CVS employee salary, while simultaneously promoting the idea that America is "racist" and forcing hourly-wage workers to deconstruct their racial and sexual "privilege."

Here is the full story.👇
Last year, Merlo—who has since retired—launched an extensive race reeducation program, built on the core tenets of critical race theory, including "intersectionality," "white privilege," and "unconscious bias." Image
Merlo hosted a conversation with critical race guru Ibram Kendi, who told 25,000 CVS employees that "to be born in [America] is to literally have racist ideas rain on our head consistently and constantly." As a result, Americans are "completely soaked in racist ideas." ImageImage
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