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America, Right-Wing Censors, and the ‘Battle for the Next Century’
The New York Times ^ | February 22, 2023 | Charles Blow

Posted on 02/22/2023 10:23:34 PM PST by KingofZion

Chris Rufo, the man who orchestrated the attack on critical race theory, underscored a new focus earlier this month.

“Conservatives must move the fight from ideology to bureaucracy,” he tweeted. “We’ve won the debate against CRT; now it’s time to dismantle DEI.”

***What Rufo is proposing is the distorting and demonizing of legitimate practices and areas of academic inquiry. He admitted as much in a 2021 tweet, back when he was still focused primarily on critical race theory: “The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think ‘critical race theory,’ ” he wrote. “We have decodified the term and will recodify it to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans.”

***Meanwhile, Roy has been pushing his “Restoring Military Focus Act,” a bill he first introduced two years ago that would, if passed, eliminate the Department of Defense’s chief diversity and inclusion officer.

***The report, which featured on its cover six cartridges strapped to the back of a helmet, each one carrying a rainbow-colored bullet, repeatedly invoked the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....

The report also focused on trans people serving in the military and receiving gender-affirming care, as well as what it called the military’s promotion of “individual identity and self-actualization in recruitment and retention efforts, particularly for the LGBTQ+ community.”

***This fight against D.E.I. isn’t confined to public institutions and bureaucracies. As the leader of this movement, Rufo has set his sights on corporate America as well. In July, he published what he called a survey of the “programming” of every Fortune 100 company, and found they had all adopted D.E.I. programs, including those that “promote the most virulent strands of critical race theory and gender ideology.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 0chat; blowchuck; blowisanexpression; charlesblow; chat; chrisrufo; christopherrufo; chuckblow; critical; crt; dei; disney; education; fakenews; harvard; newyorkslimes; notnews; race
I find it amusing that Blow's critical piece had the opposite effect on me when I read it.
1 posted on 02/22/2023 10:23:35 PM PST by KingofZion
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To: KingofZion

Seeing a Chuck Blow column [I don’t read them] is like stepping in runny dogsqueeze.


2 posted on 02/22/2023 10:45:27 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: KingofZion

I’ll bet this racist grifter makes six figures for his vomit, easily.


3 posted on 02/22/2023 10:46:15 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: KingofZion

DIE from IED.

Charles knows not.


4 posted on 02/22/2023 10:50:43 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: KingofZion

I like Kurtis Blow better. These are the breaks.

This Joe Blow is crazy.


5 posted on 02/22/2023 10:53:01 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: KingofZion

We won CRT?

When did that happen? They are going full speed ahead with
it.


6 posted on 02/22/2023 10:58:04 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for? which it stands.)
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To: KingofZion
Roy has been pushing his “Restoring Military Focus Act,” a bill he first introduced two years ago that would, if passed, eliminate the Department of Defense’s chief diversity and inclusion officer.

Great idea...

7 posted on 02/22/2023 11:05:22 PM PST by GOPJ ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ Gumballs: Immigrants by the numbers.)
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Right-Wing Censors …
Oxymoron.
8 posted on 02/22/2023 11:36:56 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: KingofZion

The Left’s agenda being exposed to the light of day and then resisted and opposed is “censorship” per this author. We should *want* students to be lied to about things like history and race - otherwise it is ‘censorship’! We should *want* children exposed to x-rated, sexually explicit materials - otherwise it is ‘censorship’!

That’s the logic these people operate under.


9 posted on 02/22/2023 11:44:57 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: kiryandil

Another far-leftist racist Blow Job. This man is very sick, which was his main qualification for writing for the NY Times.


10 posted on 02/23/2023 12:04:58 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: KingofZion

This piece is the epitome of propaganda...


11 posted on 02/23/2023 3:11:37 AM PST by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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To: KingofZion

There are a few so damned obnoxious and wrong about everything, that reading a single word of their content makes you stoopider. See, just thinking about the author made me misspell stoopid. 😎


12 posted on 02/23/2023 3:38:07 AM PST by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Live Free!)
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To: KingofZion

then there’s this; “What Rufo is proposing is the distorting and demonizing of legitimate practices and areas of academic inquiry.”

Brought to you by the paper and people who demonized legitimate practices in the areas of scientific research and scientific thought when it came to questioning the narrative of the Kung Flu, Kung Flu lockdowns or Kung Flu therapies


13 posted on 02/23/2023 4:54:06 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: KingofZion

Wow


14 posted on 02/23/2023 1:59:40 PM PST by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: ifinnegan

I like Curtis Interruptus better.


15 posted on 02/24/2023 6:58:50 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Some people pronounce toilet turlet.


16 posted on 02/24/2023 9:59:51 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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