Christopher F. Rufo  ⚔️

The training at Cherokee Middle School began with a “land acknowledgement,” claiming that “Springfield Public Schools is built on [the] ancestral territory" of Native Americans, who had been oppressed by white colonizer "violence."pic.twitter.com/lJs4c6MLX8

The trainers then forced the teachers to watch a nine-minute silent video of “George Floyd’s last words.” It's a cult technique used to overload the senses of the participants and create an “emotional anchor” that serves to justify subsequent political arguments—with no debate.pic.twitter.com/I39RAjHNDe

Next, the trainers provided a handout for teachers to locate themselves on an “oppression matrix,” which defines white heterosexual Protestant males as the “privileged social group”—or "oppressors"—and women, minorities, transgender, and LGBT people as the “oppressed.”pic.twitter.com/K3uy0gDAtv

Next, the trainers claimed that “education funding from property tax, colorblindness, calling the police on black people, BIPOC as Halloween costumes, not believing experiences of BIPOC, tone policing, [and] white silence” are “socially acceptable” forms of "white supremacy."pic.twitter.com/97RIm1l6lB