Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ on Twitter: "Every sentence here is wrong: they aren't unconstitutional; the dichotomy is the state of play right now; they are not banning books, they are banning racist pedagogies; it's not tyranny to restrict the power of the state to indoctrinate children into a racialist ideology.… https://t.co/Hq2OSJvQuD"

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Thomas Chatterton Williams‏ @thomaschattwill Jul 5

I’m highly critical of CRT, but let’s not mince words—these new laws are speech codes. Censorship is a concession to an idea’s power, not a defense. I join ⁦@jasonintrator⁩, ⁦@kmele⁩ and ⁦@DavidAFrench⁩ to denounce these illiberal banshttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/05/opinion/anti-critical-race-theory-laws-are-un-american.html …

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Christopher F. Rufo ‏ @realchrisrufo Jul 5

Replying to @thomaschattwill @jasonintrator and

• Public education is a state monopoly, not a marketplace of ideas. • Voters, thru state legislatures, determine the curriculum. • Children should be protected from racial scapegoating. • "File a federal lawsuit" puts the onus on parents, rather than schools, which is unjust.

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Christopher F. Rufo ‏ @realchrisrufo Jul 5

Replying to @realchrisrufo @thomaschattwill and

Serious question: if a local school district adopted a Klan-based curriculum teaching race essentialism, collective guilt, and racial superiority theory, would you support or oppose a law to ban it?

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Chloé S. Valdary ‏Verified account @cvaldary Jul 5

Replying to @realchrisrufo @thomaschattwill and

Would you need to support a law to ban it when you already have the 1964 civil rights act that makes mandating such teachings unconstitutional?

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Christopher F. Rufo ‏ @realchrisrufo Jul 5

Replying to @cvaldary @thomaschattwill and

Christopher F. Rufo Retweeted Christopher F. Rufo

https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1412139605319569413 …

Christopher F. Rufo added,

Christopher F. Rufo @realchrisrufo

Replying to @kmele @wokal_distance and 3 others

"File a federal civil rights lawsuit" puts an enormous onus on parents; state legislation puts the onus on the public school, where it should be. The reality is that this kind of pedagogy is widespread, *despite existing civil rights laws.* New problems require new solutions.

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Chloé S. Valdary ‏Verified account @cvaldary Jul 5

Replying to @realchrisrufo @thomaschattwill and

Chloé S. Valdary Retweeted Jeffrey Sachs

My sense is that these bans will not actually result in cultural change and so do not produce sustained change. There's also a precedent for fighting against racist ideas in schools which is written about here:https://twitter.com/JeffreyASachs/status/1412222982940942338?s=20 …

Chloé S. Valdary added,

Jeffrey Sachs @JeffreyASachs

Replying to @kmele @realchrisrufo

It's instructive to note that back when the KKK and likeminded parents actually were writing textbooks and designing curriculum, it wasn't the law that defeated them. https://twitter.com/JeffreyASachs/status/1410250498465308676 …

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Chloé S. Valdary ‏Verified account @cvaldary Jul 5

Replying to @cvaldary @realchrisrufo and

Also @realchrisrufo some of these bills are...absolutely horrendous and also seem to be in violation of the Constitution, which, you know, would be really ironic given the pro-America spirit that is motivating the fight.https://www.arcdigital.media/p/laws-aimed-at-banning-critical-race …

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Christopher F. Rufo ‏ @realchrisrufo Jul 5

Replying to @cvaldary @thomaschattwill and

You're moving the goalposts. They already *are* creating cultural change and we'll litigate the specific texts in the states over time and, if necessary, revise them. But the deeper question remains: who gets to decide what happens in public schools? Voters or bureaucrats?

4 replies 16 retweets 97 likes

Chloé S. Valdary ‏Verified account @cvaldary Jul 5

Replying to @realchrisrufo @thomaschattwill and

They're not creating cultural change if the bans in question are as unconstitutional as the curricula they seek to prohibit. And the dichotomy you present is false. The voters in question are state legislatures effectively banning books. That is bureaucracy and it is tyranny.

3 replies 2 retweets 20 likes

Christopher F. Rufo ‏ @realchrisrufo Jul 5

Replying to @cvaldary @thomaschattwill and

Every sentence here is wrong: they aren't unconstitutional; the dichotomy is the state of play right now; they are not banning books, they are banning racist pedagogies; it's not tyranny to restrict the power of the state to indoctrinate children into a racialist ideology.

7:25 PM - 5 Jul 2021

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1. Ryon with an O‏ @Ryon_Downs Jul 5
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  The problem is that I agree with both of you.
  
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  Of course they are unconstitutional. Lawyer here! The laws are written so broadly and poorly that they cannot be enforced. As a conservative, the drafting of these laws should give you pause.
  
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