Posted on 01/27/2024 5:58:58 AM PST by CFW
The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project recently procured a cache of government documents that expose a disturbing pattern: left-wing NGOs seeking to mobilize the state against political opponents on specious accusations of “violent extremism.”
According to the report, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) urged Washington State’s “unified counterterrorism” center to investigate me, Daily Wire host Matt Walsh, and social-media influencer Libs of TikTok, under the false pretext that our reporting on gender theory in schools and transgender medical interventions constitutes “hate,” “extremism,” and “violence.”
The campaign to mobilize law enforcement against critics of gender ideology or critical race theory is not a limited affair. The ADL and a related organization, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), have developed it as a scalable, repeatable tactic to silence political opponents.
The playbook is simple. The SPLC and ADL paint a target on an individual critic, then mobilize a decentralized network of private and public assets to degrade, censor, and punish that target. On the private side, the groups activate left-wing journalists to smear the target in the press, demand that social media companies censor the target’s online speech, and encourage left-wing editors to denigrate the target on his Wikipedia page. On the public side, the groups send notices to state and federal law enforcement, hoping to mobilize the government to open investigations and intimidate critics with the threat of state repression, even incarceration.
Sometimes it works. The SPLC and ADL have damaged the reputations of innocent journalists, driven negative media coverage against mainstream conservative groups, and influenced social media firms’ censorship policies. Seeing the success of this model, other left-wing pressure groups have followed suit, demanding full-scale state repression. The National School Boards Association, for example, persuaded the Biden administration to mobilize the FBI’s counterterrorism division against parents who opposed critical race theory.
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ADL and the Southern Poverty Law FARE Center......PURE EVIL!
He’s a brave man. He started to run for the Seattle City Council a few years back. The intolerant anti-peace anti-capitalist leftard criminals started harassing him AND HIS YOUNG FAMILY to the point the Chief of Police said they couldn’t guarantee his safety so he withdrew.
Big mistake on their part, Mr. Ruffo’s worth would have been wasted on the City Council. He’s much, much more effect doing his current gig,
“Big mistake on their part, Mr. Ruffo’s worth would have been wasted on the City Council. He’s much, much more effect doing his current gig,”
You are so right. Mr. Rufo now has more people supporting his efforts and many of them have lots of money. For instance, Bill Ackman who has withdrawn financial support for ivy-leagues schools is now on board with Rufo’s efforts. So instead of concentrating his work on a small area such as Seattle, Rufo is now exposing universities and institutions nation-wide.
Absent escalating force, these evil cretins won’t stop.
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Both Harvard alum’s except the left tries to smear Mr. Ruffo of being a Harvard “night school” graduate, I bet Mr. Ruffo isn’t sporting any college debt. Sickening people.
“Both Harvard alum’s except the left tries to smear Mr. Ruffo of being a Harvard “night school” graduate, I bet Mr. Ruffo isn’t sporting any college debt. Sickening people.”
During the Gay “dust-up”, a professor at the Harvard night school made a denigrating comment about the students attending the program in an obvious attempt to vilify Rufo. Apparently, Harvard’s legal team made her walk back that statement. A few days later she made one of those “I’m sorry you misunderstood what I was saying” statements. I think Legal was standing over her shoulder as she typed in that comment.
Once the Left neutralizes the threat posed by PDJT, it will be open season on patriots.
We haven’t seen anything yet.
I didn’t hear that. Just reading your post made me smile. Any time one of the “ONES” feels pressure, as Martha says…”It’s A Good Thing.” Again disgusting ungrateful elitist POS’s.
I can tell you this. If I had two applicants, one position, both Harvard grads equal in every category except one went to Harvard night school, there’s no doubt in my mind who I would offer the spot to.
I did my undergrad & grad work at night school.
Because I was working for a living by day.
These name-calling cretins probably never worked a real job ever in their lives.
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