Christopher F. Rufo  ⚔️

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?

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?

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

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 …

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?

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.

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.