Wenyuan Wu, Ph.D. Profile picture
ED @ Californians for Equal Rights Foundation, ED @ No on 16, Co-author of the Great Parent Revolt, Minding the Campus Columnist, Words in Other Places
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Oct 4, 2022 6 tweets 4 min read
A parent challenges anti-racism teaching, to which the school responds with links to "understand white supremacy," with recycled, debunked cultish claims as the following: Look at this smorgasbord of fancy words that means nothing when put together. White supremacy is linked to all the other oppressions, all intersected in a toxic brew, an addiction that impacts all uniquely and collectively.

Well, I'm definitely infected. Come preach AA to me.
Jul 9, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
So typical of the mainstream to cast doubt & stir up division by slashing the “far right, white supremacy” label on anything/anyone that dissents.

An anti-woke civics framework sounds like a good idea. 🧐

salon.com/2022/07/08/rig… 2/ As a steering committee member of American Birthright, I am proud to promote this superb set of K-12 history, social studies & civics standards. There is nothing wrong with teaching our children the birthright of liberty, or individualism, religious freedom, self-government.
May 23, 2022 12 tweets 5 min read
My latest:

@adwooldridge is correct in arguing that despite its flaws, meritocracy remains the best system for organizing human societies...Meritocracy is not a panacea, but it is the most successful vehicle for progress.
mindingthecampus.org/2022/05/23/wha… @adwooldridge 2/Debunking meritocracy has become a ritualistic exercise in trendy equity training sessions. Characteristics such as hard work, personal initiative, and grit are only myths and vehicles of privilege that perpetuate structural inequities.
May 10, 2022 4 tweets 8 min read
Parents, are you comfortable with your young child(ren) answering these questions in an "equity survey"?

Doesn't this look like grooming of neo-racists to you? @GabsClark5 @FreeBlckThought @UTLAUncensored @ConceptualJames @Lance4CASuper @CBHeresy @TheTonus @Nicoletta0602 @_BarringtonII @RyanGirdusky @cwtremo @chrissyclark_ @NoLeftTurnElana @ACTforAmerica @LegInsurrection @PacificLegal
Apr 12, 2022 11 tweets 5 min read
🔥🧵 Woke racism in action!
San Dieguito UHSD did a mandatory DEI training for its board. A question was asked "Why do Asian kids do well in schools?" To which the superintendent replied: "people who're able to make the journey to America are wealthy." tinyurl.com/deiasian 2/. During the training, Superintendent Cheryl James-Ward floated this wild theory that Asian kids in her area are mostly from China and they possess emotional capital, financial capital... to outperform others. Your thoughts? @ConceptualJames @AsraNomani @XVanFleet
Mar 10, 2022 6 tweets 5 min read
True story:
A 1st grader drew a pic of kids holding 🙌 & wrote All Live Matters on it, triggering her “classmate of color.” Classmates’ parents lodged a complaint & the incident got escalated & the little girl was made to apologize.
What happened? @_BarringtonII @ConceptualJames 2/Surprisingly, the little girl’s parents were not informed of this “racist incident.” They found out after being confronted by the parents of the triggered classmate for their alleged white supremacy. A little girl was shamed & scapegoated to coddle woke fragility & appease BLM
Jan 15, 2022 7 tweets 2 min read
⚡️⚡️⚡️Victory out of CA! The State has settled in CFER et al. v. State of California et al. The two religious chants will be removed from the state ethnic studies model curriculum. One step forward, more to come!

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us10.campaign-archive.com/?u=b78c8475681 2/On January 14th, Californians for Equal Rights Foundation (CFER), along with three San Diego parents, reached a settlement agreement with the State of California, the California Department of Education (CDE), and the State Board of Education (SBE), in response to our lawsuit.
Jan 14, 2022 4 tweets 3 min read
"Check your privilege" programs, which have mushroomed since the 2010s, tun inward self-reflections on one's spirituality into public displays of forced virtue and political loyalty.
No surprise that the concept was coined by a women's studies "scholar" in the late 80s. @ConceptualJames @Moms4Liberty @LeonydusJohnson @CHSommers @FreeBlckThought @AsraNomani 2/Rather than anchoring "privilege," a rather fluid and subjective notion, in one's personal journey, the fluffy "check your privilege" paradigm arbitrarily pegs it to racism, sexism, ageism... It is insulting, disempowering and silly. Let me tell you why.
Dec 30, 2021 8 tweets 4 min read
🔥 Kaiser Permanente, the largest managed care organization in 🇺🇸, mandates DEI training for its CA employees. Kaiser calls race, sex, orientation... “internal dimensions of diversity,” attributes too many Asian accountants to unconscious bias, and urges equitable health care.🧵 2/ In the name of “Providing Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in California,” the health care giant fashions itself also as a social scientist, who traces all health disparities to bias and racism. Paradoxically, all racial categories are arbitrary abstractions.
Dec 29, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
The #diversity craze is nothing new. Neither is its #dissent.

"The plain fact is that the richness and unpredictability of genuine human diversity cannot be encompassed by a few caricatures, even if they are very well intentioned." -Richard Bernstein, 1994 "Valuing Diversity imagines a world of diversity in which, paradoxically, everybody will have more or less the same ideas, the same philosophy, the same vaguely liberal political convictions, the same notions of the equality of all peoples, all sexes, and all sexual practices..."
Jun 10, 2021 5 tweets 4 min read
👉This collection is for CRT deniers in San Diego Unified who dismiss our critique of its woke Local Control & Accountability plan as misinformed, unintelligent, and unfounded. Right in your face! More in the 🧵 Also from SDUSD’s LCAP presentation. The dismantling practice is central to the plan’s Goal 1: Cultivating Inclusive, Anti-racism and restorative schools, classrooms and District. Pay attention to the semantics—safe spaces, site equity teams, affinity groups...@ZaidJilani
Jun 7, 2021 10 tweets 4 min read
🔥CA’s 2nd largest school district San Diego Unified proposes $77 million ($46 mi. from COVID-19 windfalls) for “Ethnic Studie for All” & anti-racism in ALL core disciplines, professional learning & District leadership. District red guards are instructed to deny any trace of CRT. 2/ SDUSD red guards think that parents could be easily fooled by fancy code words like “critical self-awareness,” “social-emotional learning”... It is installing “Site Equity Teams” to enforce ABAR. But parents are waking 🆙 At least 4 community groups in SD are moving fast...
Jun 2, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
🙈 The Governing Board at Paloma College in San Diego is pushing for a DEI reform with:
1. Unconstitutional preferences: black space, diverse hiring of black faculty, extra support for “LatinX/ESL/undocumented” students.
2. Ethnic studies requirement.
3. Anti-racism foundation. ImageImageImage 2/ CRT puritans want to distance their academic altar from its real-life applications. But look at the mushrooming DEI/racial equity/anti-racism craze--- can you honestly say that ideas have no consequences?!
Doesn't the fist in the call to action button remind you of this⬇️⬇️? Image
May 28, 2021 6 tweets 3 min read
🧵The Nueva School in Bay Area, tuition $30-50k, is going all in for CRT: it has an Anti-racist Strategy, a Task Force on Racial Equity & Accountability w. "a specific focus on the Black community," and it's in need of a "constructivist" middle school math teacher... 2/The math teacher must "demonstrate a commitment to social justice, equity and inclusion through pedagogy and incorporate an anti-racist and anti-oppressive lens into teaching practice." @ConceptualJames Do you have students that fit the profile?
May 26, 2021 6 tweets 1 min read
☠️ If the "rebuttal" to CRT's "race essentialism" is the notion that race is a social construct, is "abolishing the white race" then just an abolitionist (not racial) practice to decenter Enlightenment values associated with social whiteness? Does this make it less racist? Image 2/In other words, does the excuse justify a revolutionary end goal to transform power to the racialized oppressed via a puritan purge of "white supremacist" ideas such as individualism, hard-work, merit, rationality... ? Isn't associating these ideas with whiteness racist?
May 25, 2021 9 tweets 2 min read
🔥 🧵🧵🧵The latest victim of the cancel culture, woke mob: Los Altos Councilwoman Lynette Lee Eng has been openly targeted, harassed and threatened by a local activist group called Justice Vanguard since November 2020, after refusing to vote for an anti-police proposal. 2/ On 11/24, Ms. Lee Eng received this text from the group leader: "Your name is going to be all over the papers. We know there are racists that supported you.” Since then, Justice Vanguard warriors have called into every Los Altos City Council meetings to bully & insult her.
May 14, 2021 6 tweets 5 min read
🔥What’s worse than socialized medicine? 🌀CRT medicine! The American Medical Association recently released an 86-page strategic plan and a 3-year roadmap to dismantle “structural and institutional racism” through 5 equity-centered approaches. 👏👏👏Committee of Public Health? AMA is following 🐾 of @TheLancet & @StanfordMed to actively engage CRT. The plan calls for racial and social justice throughout the AMA enterprise culture, systems, policies, and practices and racial healing, reconciliation and transformation in its racially discriminatory past.
May 13, 2021 6 tweets 3 min read
Government-funded neo-racism taking place now in Eanes Independent School District. Alumni and students speak out against lack of divesting in curriculum due to a lack of black authors. ⁦@ConceptualJames⁩ ⁦@DefendingEd⁩ ⁦@burns_law “We designed the surveys on race because we felt that was the issue in the district.” “The focus on anti-racism is in response to what we discovered.” @FreeBlckThought @Moms4Liberty @realchrisrufo
May 12, 2021 6 tweets 2 min read
🔥🧵📰 Yesterday, Eanes Independent School District in Austin, TX had a board meeting to discuss DEI. Again, DEI is a codename for CRT. Courageous parents from diverse backgrounds rallied against intrusion of taxpayer-funded DEI in this top-tier district and called out the lies. ImageImage 2/ Eanes ISD hired DEI consultant Mark Gooden of Columbia to conduct a survey on racism. His research design is unscientific, engulfing complex realities in a race-centric frame. His conclusion? "There was a race issue that made students of color feel excluded and/or unwelcomed."
Apr 29, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
💡At an invited speech for a Cornell law students group, I was asked if I'd be ok with banning "affirmative action" resulting in 50% of ⬇️ in black enrollment. My response: "Are you insinuating black students can't get ahead w/o preferences?" 🙊 @LegInsurrection @ConceptualJames 2)Just to throw out some relevant info. on affirmative (racial) action (preferences). The very woke #NYT ran an editorial on 08/24/17 w. this title-“Even With Affirmative Action, Blacks and Hispanics Are More Underrepresented at Top Colleges Than 35 Years Ago.” @FreeBlckThought
Feb 12, 2021 4 tweets 3 min read
1/ Pondering my exact place on the oppressor-oppressed spectrum and getting seriously confused. Is it just me or we all feel shades of gray, that the vast majority fall btw? Really enjoyed reading Das Kapital as a theoretical masterpiece, and just that. @HPluckrose @realchrisrufo 2/ Marx built his theories against the historical backdrop of industrial revolution. It didn’t help my homeland but served as a guide to paint dissidents as capitalists. Just saying.🤐 @ConceptualJames @TeacherMeyers