Published 3 years ago

The Man Who Invented the ‘Critical Race Theory’ Panic

Summary by Ground News

Christopher F. Rufo documented an anti-bias training session and sent the evidence to a journalist. The story was a phenomenon and helped to generate more leaks from across the country. Institutions that had previously seemed impenetrable have been pried open. But some less obviously tectonic leaks have had a more direct political effect.

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Yahoo News

High school teacher offers extra credit to students who testify in support of critical race theory

Two teachers in Rhode Island encouraged their students to oppose a bill outlawing critical race theory in classrooms across the state, with one teacher offering extra credit to do so.

3 years ago·Los Angeles, United States

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CNN

The right is panicking over critical race theory

Nicole Hemmer writes that the recent weaponizing of hysteria over critical race theory is not a new phenomenon. Right-wing forces attempted the same in 2012, but this moral panic has taken stronger hold now because it is such a useful political distraction from debates about racial inequality and police brutality that seized the nation with particular force a year ago.

3 years ago·Atlanta, United States

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KIFI

The right is panicking over critical race theory - Local News 8

Opinion by Nicole HemmerThe moral panic around critical race theory, an academic legal framework for analyzing structural racism, reached a new level on Glenn Beck’s radio show on Monday. Beck, who specializes in dreaming up bogeymen intent on destroying the United States, warned his audience that critical race theory was coming for everything that defines American culture. “Baseball: unwatchable because of critical race,” he said, before teasin…

3 years ago·Idaho Falls, United States

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Washington Examiner

Group with Marxist ties behind critical race theory push in schools

As the controversy over critical race theory in public schools heats up, activists on both sides of the debate have spent massive amounts of time and money on a topic that takes aim at white privilege in America.

3 years ago·Washington, United States

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The Epoch Times

Trump on Critical Race Theory in Schools: 'A Program for National Suicide'

Donald Trump has weighed in the debate over the teaching of critical race theory in American schools, which he called a program for national suicide.

3 years ago·New York, United States

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Political Wire

The Man Who Invented the ‘Critical Race Theory’ Panic

New Yorker: “As Christopher Rufo eventually came to see it, conservatives engaged in the culture war had been fighting against the same progressive racial ideology since late in the Obama years, without ever being able to describe it effectively.”Said Rufo: “We’ve needed new language for these issues. ‘Political correctness’ is a dated term and, more importantly, doesn’t apply anymore… The other frames are wrong, too: ‘cancel culture’ is a vacuo…

3 years ago·New York, United States

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