Anti-CRT Hysteria

[Cheerful Charlie]

Christopher F. Rufo
@realchrisrufo

The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the
newspaper and immediately think "critical race theory."
We have decodified the term and will recodify it to annex
the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular
with Americans.
2:17 PM . March 17, 2021. Twitter

Anti-CRT hysteria has become one of the extreme right's most successful conspiracy theories. Based on BS, claims CRT is based on Marxism and Post Modernism, it has become one big extreme right dirty trick.

Christopher Rufo is a senior fellow at the far right Manhatten Institute. Recently i have noticed numerous ads on line peddling a Manhatten Institute Anti-CRT book. We have seen sine Rufo and his fellow extremists have hatched this conspiracy garbage far right politicians falling all over themselves to pass Anti-CRT laws. This is insane.

The mind boggles!

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

You start out in 1954 by saying, “N****r, n****r, n****r."
By 1968 you can’t say “n****r”—that hurts you, backfires.
So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and
all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re
talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re
talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct
of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want
to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing
thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N****r,
n****r.”
- Lee Atwater

Basically, here at its deepest roots is what this Anti-CRT campaign is all about. Rank racism in intent. The beating heart of Rufoism. Rat fuckery ala Lee Atwater. Using the boogy man of Marxism to destroy battling systemic racism in America.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

ALEC Inspires Lawmakers to File Anti-Critical Race Theory Bills - EXPOSEDbyCMD

Known for pushing bills that protect corporate interests, ALEC jumps back into culture wars to oppose teaching of systemic racism in schools.

www.exposedbycmd.org

How did Anti-CRT hysteria so rapidly infect Republican politics? ALEC. From people like Rufo and the Manhatten Institute to ALEC to model laws instituted nation wide by ignorant politicians.

 

[Politesse]

ALEC Inspires Lawmakers to File Anti-Critical Race Theory Bills - EXPOSEDbyCMD

Known for pushing bills that protect corporate interests, ALEC jumps back into culture wars to oppose teaching of systemic racism in schools.

www.exposedbycmd.org

How did Anti-CRT hysteria so rapidly infect Republican politics? ALEC. From people like Rufo and the Manhatten Institute to ALEC to model laws instituted nation wide by ignorant politicians.

It's just a rebranding; the propaganda machine was already there, just focused on different buzzwords before. (Remember "politically correct"?)

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Fox News has mentioned 'critical race theory' nearly 1300 times since March, according to watchdog study

Media Matters for America, a left-leaning nonprofit, tracked the buzzword on Fox News going back to last June. Mentions are rising exponentially.

www.businessinsider.com

As critical race theory has emerged as a central talking point and fundraising tactic for Republicans, Fox News has been flooding the zone and mentioning it at an accelerating pace.
As critical race theory has emerged as a central talking point and fundraising tactic for Republicans, Fox News has been flooding the zone and mentioning it at an accelerating pace.

A new study from Media Matters for America, a left-leaning nonprofit, found nearly 1,300 mentions of the term over the course of three and-a-half months.

.....

The next step in mainstreaming Anti-CRT racism into American politics was far right media. Faux, NewsMud, OANN and social media. A perfect storm.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

ALEC Inspires Lawmakers to File Anti-Critical Race Theory Bills - EXPOSEDbyCMD

Known for pushing bills that protect corporate interests, ALEC jumps back into culture wars to oppose teaching of systemic racism in schools.

www.exposedbycmd.org

How did Anti-CRT hysteria so rapidly infect Republican politics? ALEC. From people like Rufo and the Manhatten Institute to ALEC to model laws instituted nation wide by ignorant politicians.

It's just a rebranding; the propaganda machine was already there, just focused on different buzzwords before. (Remember "politically correct"?)

The rebranding here was claiming CRT was inspired by Marxism. And Post Modernism. Which of course is false.

 

[Politesse]

ALEC Inspires Lawmakers to File Anti-Critical Race Theory Bills - EXPOSEDbyCMD

Known for pushing bills that protect corporate interests, ALEC jumps back into culture wars to oppose teaching of systemic racism in schools.

www.exposedbycmd.org

How did Anti-CRT hysteria so rapidly infect Republican politics? ALEC. From people like Rufo and the Manhatten Institute to ALEC to model laws instituted nation wide by ignorant politicians.

It's just a rebranding; the propaganda machine was already there, just focused on different buzzwords before. (Remember "politically correct"?)

The rebranding here was claiming CRT was inspired by Marxism. And Post Modernism. Which of course is false.

They don't know the difference between any of their scare words, it's just whatever the pundits are screaming about at the moment, plus whatever former buzzwords are still meaningful to any particular listener.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

It is the creation of new buzzwords. CRT. Which Rufo gleefully admits is some inflammatory word that any fake right winged faux outrage can be hung. Which Faux News and other irresponsible right wing meadia outlets are more than happy to exploit.

Google "mediamatters, CRT" for many examples.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

The obscure foundation funding "Critical Race Theory" hysteria

Critical Race Theory (CRT), once a little-known academic concept, is now at the center of the national political discussion. CRT is discussed incessantly on Fox News. It is featured in campaign advertisements. And legislation banning it is advancing in statehouses around the country.

popular.info

Here is where Rufo and the Manhatten Institute gets its financing for its Anti-CRT crusade. Another extremist right wing wealthy hedge fund manager. Thomas W. Smith.

 

[laughing dog]

ALEC Inspires Lawmakers to File Anti-Critical Race Theory Bills - EXPOSEDbyCMD

Known for pushing bills that protect corporate interests, ALEC jumps back into culture wars to oppose teaching of systemic racism in schools.

www.exposedbycmd.org

How did Anti-CRT hysteria so rapidly infect Republican politics? ALEC. From people like Rufo and the Manhatten Institute to ALEC to model laws instituted nation wide by ignorant politicians.

You mistake the symptom for the disease - racism is the reason, ALEC is the vector.

 

[Oleg]

How did Anti-CRT hysteria so rapidly infect Republican politics?

Covid. With Zoom classes parents got to see what schools were actually teaching.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

No.

 

[Bomb#20]

Anti-CRT hysteria has become one of the extreme right's most successful conspiracy theories. Based on BS, claims CRT is based on Marxism and Post Modernism, it has become one big extreme right dirty trick.

The rebranding here was claiming CRT was inspired by Marxism. And Post Modernism. Which of course is false.

Do you have any actual case to present showing CRT isn't based on Marxism, or are we all just supposed to take your uncorroborated word for it that it is not? The history of the CRT movement is a matter of record. It's in Wikipedia.

"CRT, a framework of analysis grounded in critical theory,[20] originated in the mid-1970s in the writings of several American legal scholars, including Derrick Bell, Alan Freeman, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Richard Delgado, Cheryl Harris, Charles R. Lawrence III, Mari Matsuda, and Patricia J. Williams.[21]"​

Richard Delgado (author of "Critical Race Theory: an Introduction"), self-identifies as a Marxist. He described the attendees of the founding conference at U of Wisconsin (which included Bell, Crenshaw, Lawrence and Matsuda) as "a bunch of Marxists". He was of course making a sweeping generalization and most likely not all attendees were Marxists, but it's absurd to claim CRT has no Marxist inspiration.

That's the personnel. As to the theory itself, Wikipedia says:

Philosophical foundations
CRT scholars draw on the work of Antonio Gramsci...​

Gramsci was the head of the Italian Communist Party.

Wikipedia also explains:

"Although the terminology critical race theory began in its application to laws, the subject emerges out of the broader frame of critical theory "

"Specifically, Critical Theory (capitalized) is a school of thought practiced by the Frankfurt School "

"The term "Frankfurt School" describes the works of scholarship and the intellectuals who were the Institute for Social Research (Institut für Sozialforschung), an adjunct organization at Goethe University Frankfurt, founded in 1923, by Carl Grünberg, a Marxist professor of law at the University of Vienna.[10] It was the first Marxist research center at a German university"

"In addition to its roots in the first-generation Frankfurt School, critical theory has also been influenced by György Lukács and Antonio Gramsci. "

"György Lukács[a] (born György Bernát Löwinger; Hungarian: szegedi Lukács György Bernát; German: Georg Bernard Baron Lukács von Szegedin;[c] 13 April 1885 – 4 June 1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, literary historian, critic, and aesthetician.[6] He was one of the founders of Western Marxism, an interpretive tradition that departed from the Marxist ideological orthodoxy of the Soviet Union. He developed the theory of reification, and contributed to Marxist theory with developments of Karl Marx's theory of class consciousness. He was also a philosopher of Leninism. He ideologically developed and organised Lenin's pragmatic revolutionary practices into the formal philosophy of vanguard-party revolution."

"Antonio Francesco Gramsci (UK: /ˈɡræmʃi/ GRAM-shee,[5] US: /ˈɡrɑːmʃi/ GRAHM-shee,[6] Italian: [anˈtɔːnjo franˈtʃesko ˈɡramʃi] (listen); 22 January 1891 – 27 April 1937) was an Italian Marxist philosopher, journalist, linguist, writer, and politician. He wrote on philosophy, political theory, sociology, history, and linguistics. He was a founding member and one-time leader of the Communist Party of Italy."[/b]​

So explain yourself. Why the devil should anyone take your word for it when you say claiming CRT was inspired by Marxism "of course is false"?

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

What part of CRT is objectionably based on false Marxist principles? BE SPECIFIC.
Are only right winged conservatives allowed to comment on Americcan systematic racism? See the Lee Atwater quote above. Basically the conservative right has never been part of the solution, but is the problem.

Back in the past, some of the few whites that stood up against American racism was the Communist Party USA. Did that fact make anti-racism bad? J. Edgar Hoover thought so and accused civil rights protests on the Communists stirring up the negros. And harassed civil rights leaders unmercifully. Meanwhile utterly ignoring Costra Nostra organized crime. Yeah baby! Tell us how bad them Marxists are standing up to racism when many American Dixiecrats (soon to become Republicans) were stout racists.

This guilt by association can be heard on Fox News, but we find little right wing concern about America's deteriorating racism opposition.

Tell us why being a Marxist means that person has no right to study America's race problems. Or accurately point out America's systemic racism!

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Fratelli Tutti
Encyclical of Pope Francis
September 5, 2020

"Concern about this led me to offer the young some advice. “If someone tells young people to ignore their history, to reject the experiences of their elders, to look down on the past and to look forward to a future that he himself holds out, doesn’t it then become easy to draw them along so that they only do what he tells them? He needs the young to be shallow, uprooted and distrustful, so that they can trust only in his promises and act according to his plans. That is how various ideologies operate: they destroy (or deconstruct) all differences so that they can reign unopposed. "

And this is what Anti-CRT is about. Using Rufo's dirty trick campaign to get laws passed to prevent discussion of American history in American Schools. To disappear all that into the Orwellian memory hole. Yes, it disturbs our white snowfake children to learn Americans once owned slaves. And many fought civil rights tooth and nail.

 

[Gospel]

I'm waiting for evidence of CRT being a part of the public school curriculum from Kindergarten to 12th grade before I start giving a fuck whether its Marxist or not. That's just me.

 

[Patooka]

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So explain yourself. Why the devil should anyone take your word for it when you say claiming CRT was inspired by Marxism "of course is false"?

Wow, that's a lot of correlation, implication and inference there.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

I am not saying CRT was inspired by Marxism. It was inspired by legal issues raised by racism. And understanding the extent and roots of systemic racism. Lots of people have studied this and wrote on it, and obviously, not all of them were Marxists. Much less doctrinaire Marxists.

The point is, even if we find Marxists studying these issues, it does not mean CRT is wrong. This is like saying since many Christian theologians championed slavey all Christians are suspect.

 

[Patooka]

I am not saying CRT was inspired by Marxism. It was inspired by legal issues raised by racism. And understanding the extent and roots of systemic racism. Lots of people have studied this and wrote on it, and obviously, not all of them were Marxists. Much less doctrinaire Marxists.

The point is, even if we find Marxists studying these issues, it does not mean CRT is wrong. This is like saying since many Christian theologians championed slavey all Christians are suspect.

I assumed as much - it was more directed at Bomb#20's convoluted...argument? Explanation? Rant?

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Fratelli Tutti
Encyclical of Pope Francis
September 5, 2020

"Concern about this led me to offer the young some advice. “If someone tells young people to ignore their history, to reject the experiences of their elders, to look down on the past and to look forward to a future that he himself holds out, doesn’t it then become easy to draw them along so that they only do what he tells them? He needs the young to be shallow, uprooted and distrustful, so that they can trust only in his promises and act according to his plans. That is how various ideologies operate: they destroy (or deconstruct) all differences so that they can reign unopposed. "

And this is what Anti-CRT is about. Using Rufo's dirty trick campaign to get laws passed to prevent discussion of American history in American Schools. To disappear all that into the Orwellian memory hole. Yes, it disturbs our white snowfake children to learn Americans once owned slaves. And many fought civil rights tooth and nail.

While I have some problems with the concept of CRT the opposition is almost unanimously those who don't want the ugly parts of history taught.