Rob Rogers created an excellent TikTok video that shows where Chris Rufo fits into the war on public schools. Rufo invented the “critical race theory” hysteria out of whole cloth. He’s proud of his malicious role in “laying siege to the institutions.” Of course, Ron DeSantis appointed him to the board of New College as part of a rightwing takeover of that once highly esteemed liberal arts college that welcomed free-thinkers. To people like DeSantis and Rufo, free thinking is anathema.
To get the full Rufo treatment, watch his speech at Hillsdale College from April 2022.
I try to imagine a world in which everyone thought as Rufo wants them to: ban the artists, the creatives, the innovators, the dissenters, the dreamers, the people who think differently. I don’t want to live in that world. It feels like North Korea.
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This Tik Tok video should receive national exposure.
Any person who is a Republican Catholic, Democratic Catholic or, independent Catholic should make sure that the church’s leaders view it.
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Notre Dame’s ACE- at the website, an array of 130 photographs of their “people”- visually, I see only two Black people. The Black population of South Bend, Indiana is roughly 25%.
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In what is no surprise- Nicole Stelle Garnet, Manhattan Institute Fellow (Koch) is one of Notre Dame’s ACE “people.”
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Excellent idea. Send Rufo to Kim as a special envoy. Is there such a thing as crostata mass for fascism?
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“I try to imagine a world in which everyone thought as Rufo wants them to. . .
We already have. It was called the USSR or Mao’s Cultural Revolution or the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
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Or North Korea.
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Feel sorry for Rufo’s children (if they aren’t sociopaths). It’d be horrible to live with a nihilist poisoning everything positive in the same way Koch does.
Add to that Rufo’s efforts that bolster bigotry. He’s a disgrace as an American and, as a father, the example he sets is tragic.
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Feeling sorry for the children of corporate reformsters reminds me of Michelle Rhee. I felt sorry for her mother too.
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I felt sorry for the bee that she ate
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Unfortunately, it wasn’t a parasitic wasp.
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Rob Rogers has a piece of the story but, he could expand it by reading, “The New Official Contents of Sex Education in Mexico: laicism in the cross hairs,” posted at the Scielo site.
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Did you catch him saying he didn’t know why people argue against using public funds for religious school education? He couldn’t be more disingenuous.
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LG,
The school choice movement isn’t about “school choice.” It’s about who pays for private choices. The family or the government. DeVos, Koch, and Rufo think the government should pay.
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Oh, absolutely, Diane. I was just pointing out how he claimed he “didn’t know why” anyone would be against even religious schools getting public funding when there is a most obvious reason beyond them being private enterprises: Separation of church and state. It’s clear his audience is pro-private systems to begin with as that is their MO, but how he singled out religious schools with “I don’t know why” was especially awful.
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Read the comments following the first clip. So many people agree with him! Education is NOT a for profit business and certainly NOT a cartel. The idea that Teachers don’t need training is INSANE! How is it that so many people think this is true?
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Rufo doesn’t want students nor the public to learn how White Christian and Catholic Churches made the lives of Black people miserable. It started with slavery and continues in right wing religious support for the political party of racial bigots.
Read at the Cushwa Center site, the story of American Catholicism, “The pervasive institution: Slavery and its legacies in US Catholicism.” 4-5-2022
“The Catholic Church was the first and largest corporate slaveholder in the Americas…Catholic religious regularly inflicted physical violence on enslaved people.”
Adding my comment- they continue to inflict violence in forcing women into pregnancies. Risk of death is 13 times higher from a pregnancy as compared to an abortion. The Church has never stopped its abuse of power.
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