Christopher F. Rufo  ⚔️

We talked to parents, teachers, activists, school board members, and watched too many hours of local school board meetings to count. The strategies? Disruption, publicity, and mobilization. For longtime ultra conservative activists, CRT is the opportunity of a lifetime.pic.twitter.com/mucBrxDJ18

Major conservative groups like the Heritage Foundation and ALEC, and small-time lawyers and activists looking to make a name for themselves, have hopped aboard, positioning their groups as the best way to fight CRT. (Despite a lack of evidence that it's actually being taught.)pic.twitter.com/JANUsoR4Zf

This topic is just ramping up. We counted more than 50 local school board fights over CRT with 165 local parent groups, many part of larger, national orgs, leading the charge on the ground. Who suffers? Teachers and students, many who appear near tears at school board meetings.pic.twitter.com/EX0fkSg4gM

To the dear readers who will fill my inbox later with claims that the threat of CRT is real and not just a catch-all term repurposed as a conservative boogeyman? I give you Chris Rufo, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, who takes credit for this anti-CRT fervor.pic.twitter.com/bYkxprpCP0