Chris Rufo is the rightwing propagandist who has made it his mission to lead the charge against America’s public schools, the schools that educated 90% of the American people, the schools that educated “the greatest generation,” the schools that have enabled people of different races, religions, and ethnic group to join together as one people.
Rufo wants to destroy public schools and replace them with publicly-funded school choice: religious schools, private schools, homeschooling–anything but community-owned and community-led public schools. He wants your public dollars to pay for religious schools that indoctrinate children, for private schools that discriminate against the children they don’t want, and for home schools where education is defined by the knowledge or ignorance of parents. He actually doesn’t care about education at all. He doesn’t want to see young people inspired by knowledgable teachers. His goal is destruction.
He wrote in a recent tweet (@realchrisrufo):
We’re building the narrative that public schools are translating the principles of academic Queer Theory into the K-12 curriculum. Our Portland story generated 25+ million media impressions this week—and we’re going to drop another story every Wednesday through September.
Rufo adds a graphic in which he accuses the Portland, Oregon, school district of indoctrinating students to become LGBT activists in kindergarten through fifth grade. Sample: “Latest: They’re Teaching Five Genders in Kindergarten.” And, “In Portland, the Sexual Revolution Begins in Kindergarten.” Rufo is quoted on the usual rightwing websites and has appeared on FOX News to spew his message of hatred for public schools.
Someone on Twitter referred to Rufo as “the American Goebbels.” I wonder if Rufo knows who that is? He was not well educated. Probably indoctrinated.
Their craven, power-hungry cynicism is bottomless.
Rubio has lost his “little” mind.
Also correct, but we’ve known this for years.
OOPS, meant Rufo has lost his “little” mind.
Rufo, Rubio
Six of one. A half dozen of the other.
True!
Thanks, SomeDAM Poet.
Used to be Maddox and Wallace and McCarthy and Hoover (J. Edgar) were the voices of racism and “Are you now or have you ever been?” respectively. We had three tv stations and print media.
Rufo and the rest now reach millions, get headlines everywhere (a.k.a. validation and publicity) and no coded speeches… flat out racist and homophobic spewing.
And, they have the local media in their pockets by showing up at local school board and small town council meetings.
Annie Kinsella – we need one of you in every local media market’s public meetings!
Seriously!
In other news, Supreme court Justasses Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas , John Roberts , Brett K , Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett blow a head gasket and emit steam from their ears when they learn that Kansas voters just overwhelming rejected an effort to remove abortion protection from the state constitution
Yes, yes, yes. Win it back locally until these backward justasses can be replaced!
When the people of Kansas voted for Abortion
Roberts cracked his block
Alito blew a gasket
Gorsuch steamed a lot
And Brett was case of basket
Amy wrung her hands
And Thomas turned to red
And all their many fans
Wished Kansas folk were dead
This is how backward the new Trumpy Extreme Court is: 58.8 percent of voters in red, red Kansas voted to preserve abortion rights.
The more outrageous the propaganda the less parents and discerning community members are buying the poison that people like Rufo spew. Even many people can have accepted school choice have a hard time seeing their public school teachers as “groomers” and “woke radicals.” Rufo will say anything to cause division and disruption before the midterms. The right feeds on fear and dissension, and Rufo is a gun for hire.
Thank you, voters of Kansas, for your common sense.
What a beautiful thought this morning: the conservative justices rebuked by the voters of Kansas! Now if pro-abortion Dems sweep the House and Senate in the fall…
I can dream.
Never stop dreaming, Diane!!! xoxoxoxoxo!!!!
Bigot. n. a person who is obstinately and unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, especially one who is prejudiced against and antagonistic toward a person or people based on their membership in a supposed identity group defined by race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, or sex. Ex: Chris Rufo.
Rufo is symptomatic of how low the Repugnican Party has descended. Many now feel that they don’t even have to pretend, in the public sphere, not to be bigots.
As vicious and stupid and ignorant as Trump is, even he won’t go as far as Rufo and simply flat-out own his bigotry. Rufo is quite a piece of work.
Like other mob bosses
Trump, you see,
will always seek plausible
deniability.
Journey to the Center of the Earth
If Rufo’s the roof
Then center’s the floor
And Twitter’s the proof
That Rufo’s the core
That lying’s the core
“Building the narrative” is his fancy way of saying “we’re lyin’ & conspirin'”
Exactly! He is not concerned about whether the “narrative” they are building is true or false, only that they can get people to believe it.
Rufo is a true professional. A professional liar. He is a master of the craft of deception and distortion. All in the service of racism, homophobia, and the undermining of democracy.
To put it plainly (and Rufo has responded to this blog in the past), he should be ashamed of himself. Whatever religious school he went to filled him with hatred.
He’s in a class with Stephen “Goebbels” Miller and Steve “Pig Pen” Bannon of the most despicable Repugnicans.
I wonder why Rufo would take time to post here. Seems like such a waste to cast such pearls of wisdom before the swine of the literate
He needs to think back to the day he decided to be straight and see which teachers convinced him to choose that lifestyle. Oh, wait…
Haaaaaaa!!!!!
So well said, Ms. Dollar!
I think Chris Rufo is Fascist with a capital “F”
Rufo’s title should be Fascist Chris Rufo. But Rufo is probably an ALEC fascist instead of a MAGA Trumpist.
I should have added, Fascism is always built on a foundation of BIG LIES and hate.
This is another lie being promoted by alleged ALEC Fascist Chris Rufo.
Sounds to me like Chris Rufo has a problem with all things internally hetero-. I mean how many times have we seen political hacks yap and yammer away at homosexuality as a way to repress their own?….only to come out years later and be interviewed on Dateline or 60 Minutes about regretting their actions–when they actually mattered.
Rufo is a homorepressual?
That would make some sense.
Chris Rufo is promoting anti-trans hate to empower the right wing Republican party.
Previously Chris Rufo promoted racist hate to empower the right wing Republican party.
Do the Democrats stand up and say there is nothing wrong with what is being taught, or do they concede that the Republicans AND the Dem-hating critics on the left are correct that this is all the Dems’ fault for being “too focused on identity politics”?
The game plan is use human beings for their selfish political ends, the fates of those people be damned. Their willingness to destroy people to maintain political power is no different than that of slaveowners of 1860 up to and through persecutors of all types today.
I just realized I feel into a rhetorical hole here. Rather than engage in this false debate, we need to get to the core argument: No good public school teacher is trying to turn their children into anything other than to give them the best chance to succeed. The only answer is, “That’s absurd”, and then move on.
No discussion about Rufo is complete without identifying his Koch connections and mentioning, Ryan Girdusky, the founder of the 1776 PAC. Girdusky’s (2014) interview posted at the Pat Buchanan site pulls in the religious right connection, conservative Catholics and evangelicals.
Speaking of, the author of The Family, a book about the religious right power structure in D.C., didn’t express any surprise at the latest missing Jan. 6 texts in the DOD.
The testimony of Inspector General for the Secret Service, Joseph Cuffari, will be interesting. Also of interest, unraveling the possibility of interconnectedness of theocracy’s operatives before and on Jan. 6. And after Jan.6, if there was a cover-up.
I love the way Rufo always tells everybody exactly what he’s up to. He knows his followers have no shame. Check out the replies: a few dim bulbs object to his calling this a “narrative”– hey, that’s no narrative Chris buddy, it’s the factual god’s honest truth!
What utter outright lies. CR is spreading.