. Rufo read the footnotes in those books, and found that they pointed to academic scholarship from the nineteen-nineties, by a group of legal scholars who referred to their work as critical race theory, in particular Kimberlé Crenshaw and Derrick Bell. These scholars argued that the white supremacy of the past lived on in the laws and societal rules of the present.
He thought that the phrase was a better description of what conservatives were opposing, but it also seemed like a promising political weapon. “Its connotations are all negative to most middle-class Americans, including racial minorities, who see the world as ‘creative’ rather than ‘critical,’ ‘individual’ rather than ‘racial,’ ‘practical’ rather than ‘theoretical.
Since his appearance on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” last fall, Rufo’s rise had matched that of the movement against critical race theory. He’d become a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, for which he had written more than two dozen document-based articles—mostly about anti-bias training in the government, schools, and corporations—which, he told me, had together accrued more than two hundred and fifty million impressions online.
Rufo opened his laptop and, after a couple of clicks, showed me a screenshot from the anti-racism training session that white male executives at Lockheed Martin had been required to attend. “Look at these dudes!” Rufo said. A Zoom array of middle-aged white male heads greeted me—a dozen men looking, on the whole, a little apprehensive. The Lockheed training had evidently included an exercise in which the executives had explained in writing what they hoped to get out of the session.
Race theories have their origins in the XVIIII century, which is where they belong as the notion of “race,” is nothing but an untested belief in the “‘sciences’ of the illiterate.” I’ve never read of nor observed any tested data that proves such races even exist.
realchrisrufo on CRT:
CRT, A boogeyman invented by conservatives to scare old white men and gin up the outrage machine.
Still in denial 😂
Is there a reason, New Yorker, that you continue to provide disguise and cover for fascists by calling them merely 'conservatives'? Why the cowardice? Or are you just complicit?
Please stop pumping air into this tire fire
This
Invented 😂😂😂😂 sillywokes
The conflict over the ideas included in Critical Race Theory began the minute it was invented, because it is built on hating an entire race of people. The New Yorker is being disingenuous by pretending those three words are the issue.
cwt_news 😂
Cue the circus music 🤡🎪 🎶🤡 cuz this is definitely clown 💩.
Conservatives in the US currently are right about very few things. But fighting back finally against this CRT bullshit definitively is one of them.
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