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The Charlie Kirk Show
"rufo" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"All right, let's get to some questions here. Kate, I want to make sure I get the tweet pulled up. That reference is, yes, hey, Charlie, did you see Christopher ruffo's take on college? It's obviously something I'd love to get your opinions on. Thanks so much, aha. This is a great I actually hadn't looked at the tweets till now. Okay, the conservative don't go to college meme is a mistake Christopher rufo says, driven by a sense of fatalism and inferiority. The right attitude is to quote make colleges better so we can send our children to the kind of institution, they deserve. I think Christopher ruffo is a special person, but I think he's totally wrong here. And smart people can disagree. So, and I actually had this, I had a robust conversation about this with Dennis prager and Allen estrin from prager university Dennis and I were speaking at Arizona state university together. And I'll kind of give you an update on that because that was that was really interesting and illuminating in some regards. So Alan and I got to talking and Alan is a very learned man and Dennis is beyond a learned man. And he prompted all three of us were talking out of nowhere. I said, Alan, what is the solution he said? It's very simple and he's a very stoic and he's very serious. Burn it all down. I was like, what? Like, I agree, obviously. He said, you just got to burn it to a crisp. There is no redeeming value to these institutions. And I mean, it's not a shock. I sympathize with that sentiment. However, here's and I do outline this in my book, the college scam. You guys can check it out in great detail. What's been interesting as a side note to the publication of my book, I have not had a snobbish response to my book the college scam. The maga doctrine tons of snobbery of responding. Campus battleground a ton of snobbery time for a turning point. You know, all these kind of people. Interestingly enough, the college scam was just largely ignored. So there's two ways to take that. I want to act as if, you know, take myself too seriously, but one take is like, okay, Charlie just keeps saying the same thing over and over again, not worth our time. The other take is that it's a hard argument to refute. And because I did source it so comprehensively, the data is there. It's a very, very deep book. It is the most comprehensive indictment of the college industry that exists. I spent a lot of time on it. Our team was fabulous and researching it and were able to distill it together. And so, but I do wonder, Christopher rufo says that we should make colleges better. How? Where has that ever worked? Now, building new colleges totally support that, supporting the ones that are already good like hillsdale college, yes. But where has there been a meaningful recapturing of the institution? Now, to Christopher Rufus credit, and again, this is we're just disagreeing. I think he's a fabulous person. He's trying to do that at new college in Sarasota, Florida. He's testing out this premise, and I am going to be his most enthusiastic cheerleader. But just color me a fair more cynical in this regard, that you're talking about the same thing as saying, well, we need to make the FBI better. We need to make the IRS better. It's the same type of personnel. Same sort of attitude that same sort of deep state character or lack thereof that exists within a college that also exists in the inner agencies of our government. And so people ask me all the time they say Charlie, do you think I should send my kid to college? The answer is it's kind of a lawyerly answer. It depends. But the answer is usually no. We have way too many kids that go to college. Of course, a scam. If you go to college, you have to check the right boxes. I talk about it in my book, but I'll just kind of, I'll conclude on this. At Arizona state university where 37 out of 47 of the professor signed a letter saying they don't want Dennis prager and I to speak on campus, I was very moved at the pre speech reception, where a mother of four came up to me. And she was really, really sweet. And she said, Charlie, none of my four sons speak to me anymore. We have 5 grandkids we're not allowed to see them. I said, why? She said, well, they went to college, and we regret that. So you regret sending the college, oh, yeah, if we would do it again, we would never do it again. I hear this frequently. I hear this quite often. And they say until we change our politics and our beliefs and our views and our worldview, we're not allowed to see our grandkids. So holding grandkids hostage for political views, yes, that comes directly from college. That is not normal. That is a learned sociopathic evil behavior. That somehow you should disconnect from your family because you view politics differently..
The Charlie Kirk Show
Chris Rufo Rejects the "Don't Go to College" Argument
"Did you see Christopher ruffo's take on college? It's obviously something I'd love to get your opinions on. Thanks so much, aha. This is a great I actually hadn't looked at the tweets till now. Okay, the conservative don't go to college meme is a mistake Christopher rufo says, driven by a sense of fatalism and inferiority. The right attitude is to quote make colleges better so we can send our children to the kind of institution, they deserve. I think Christopher ruffo is a special person, but I think he's totally wrong here. And smart people can disagree. So, and I actually had this, I had a robust conversation about this with Dennis prager and Allen estrin from prager university Dennis and I were speaking at Arizona state university together. And I'll kind of give you an update on that because that was that was really interesting and illuminating in some regards. So Alan and I got to talking and Alan is a very learned man and Dennis is beyond a learned man. And he prompted all three of us were talking out of nowhere. I said, Alan, what is the solution he said? It's very simple and he's a very stoic and he's very serious. Burn it all down. I was like, what? Like, I agree, obviously. He said, you just got to burn it to a crisp. There is no redeeming value to these institutions. And I mean, it's not a shock. I sympathize with that sentiment. However, here's and I do outline this in my book, the college scam. You guys can check it out in great detail. What's been interesting as a side note to the publication of my book, I have not had a snobbish response to my book the college scam. The maga doctrine tons of snobbery of responding. Campus battleground a ton of snobbery time for a turning point. You know, all these kind of people. Interestingly enough, the college scam was just largely ignored.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
Dennis Talks to Chris Rufo, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute
"A Chris rufo. Welcome back to my show. It's great to be with you. Where do you live, by the way? Yeah, I have outside of Seattle, Washington, and a small town on the kitsap Peninsula. A bit far away from Florida, but I found myself in the last few years. Spending a lot of time in the sunshine state and really having a huge admiration for what governor desantis has been doing there. Listen, Washington state to Florida is a serious trip. I salute you. In the last two weeks, you may be the only person working full-time in Florida who's living. You know, pilots do that. Where were you based Denver, you know, where you fly out of Laguardia. Okay, but you really got it bad or fascinating. All right, so let's explain everything. This is beyond interesting. It's equally important. So he contacted you, governor desantis to do what. Yeah, I've been working with the governor and his team on critical race theory on gender ideology in schools. I helped with the stop woke act and attended a number of events with him, including the bill signing for the legislation. And then I got a call last month from one of the governor's team. And he said, hey, look, we're going to overturn, we're going to take over the whole board of new college of Florida, which is Florida's smallest public university. It has about 700 students. It's notoriously kind of left wing and progressive. There are some located in Florida. It's in Sarasota, so it's on the gulf side of Florida. Of the state. And it's actually been really failing. It actually has the lowest scores on all the performance metrics. For the Florida high dropout rates, can't recruit enough students, huge problems for years. And the situation that they describe was this, the legislature is ready to actually just dissolve the university entirely. They're so frustrated at the university has been sailing for so long. They are ready to actually shut it down. But the governor had a different idea. He said, rather than shutting it down, why don't we do an experiment? We're going to get a new majority of board members that are kind of solid conservatives, intellectuals, from hillsdale, from other institutions, and we'll take over the board and we'll perform it from the top down. And so I said, great, well, how would you like me to help? And he said, we want you to be on the board, which is a bit surprising at first. But it's turned out to be really, I think, just a great experiment. And it really is the future of saying, hey, look, when conservative win elections, when they get to a point people to board the boards of trustees at that public universities, those people should actually take action. They should actually start doing something so that the public institutions start reflecting the values of the public.
The Dan Bongino Show
Christopher Rufo: Wells Fargo, Others Are Using Race to Give Mortgages
"They have some new policy going forward on mortgages and racial stuff going on Hey what That sounds kind of weird to me There are law against that here Check this out So Wells Fargo used to be the biggest mortgage lender in the United States Now they're downsizing instead of offering mortgages to everyone They're going to focus instead on giving mortgages to quote individuals and families in minority communities In other words not letting money to white people Is that illegal The journalists and filmmaker Chris rufo has been on this story we should tell you the governor desantis afforded a pointed roof out to the board of trustees at the new college of Florida in an effort to end at the ideological rot there Chris ruffo joins us Now Chris thanks so much for coming up This is another one of those stories that you feel like this has to be too far Tell us what you know about it Well what we're seeing is the emergence of two separate standards based on race and the disappearance of this idea that everyone should be treated equally under the law and then judge according to the behavior I think it's important for conservatives understand that these programs are not simply a hypocrisy or kind of two sides of a difference of a same standard They're actually entirely different standards We're creating a moral basis based on identity that is seeking to seeking to supplant or replace a moral basis on behavior And these companies are just following the lead of the academics the universities the activists on the left and they're saying we're going to not judge people on their financial solvency or reliability but on the basis of a racial revenge narrative And they're saying simply we're going out to judge you on the basis of race It's illegal but in so many cases they're getting away with it Yep Listen to what he just said Christopher rufo something we've said on this show many times There's not a double standard with liberals It's one single standard where in charge and you are not
The Officer Tatum Show
Taking Back Our Institutions
"This is big news. You can't get away from it. Because it's major and it goes beyond it goes beyond hypocrisy. It goes far beyond hypocrisy. What we're seeing is, in my opinion, tyranny at place are in play. You have this revelation that Biden Biden had some classify documents. Very important, high level classified documents at this center in Washington at the Biden pin center or the pin Biden center in Washington, D.C. and everybody is going crazy at least on the left and they're trying to make it sound as if this isn't a big deal. This is a huge deal. You know, I was sitting here thinking about, you know, with all of the news breaking, there's some stuff that I plan to talk about today that I'm just not going to get to, but because I have to tackle this news. I want to talk about laying siege of our institutions. We've got to take our institutions back. Christopher rufo has written about this. He's with the city journal. He's done great work with this. He's written for hillsdale and in primus. Just magnificent work. We've got to take back the institutions. This is why I love being able to interview Kevin sorbo. We have to infiltrate academia. We have to infiltrate entertainment and listen, wherever God has called you to go, you need to go and shine a light spread a light, but also not be afraid to share your values to share your beliefs.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Fact-Checking Police Brutality
"One of the reasons I like the work of Chris rufo is that in places like city journal and elsewhere, he does a really good job in a concrete way documenting how woke culture plays out in major corporations and also in the media. But here's a very interesting story that comes out of Reuters. This is the Thomson Reuters corporation a massive media conglomerate that at one time had a reputation for kind of objectively and critically presenting the news and letting people decide for themselves. Well, no more. Reuters has gone woke in a big way. And Zach kriegman turns out to have become its latest victim. Now here's a guy who has got terrific credentials. He's got a BA in economics from Michigan. He's got a JD from Harvard. He's got lots of experience with high-tech startups. He's essentially an econometrics research consultant and he's been with Reuters for 6 years where he's in involved in statistics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and software engineering. In fact, his title in the beginning of 2020 was director of data science at Reuters. Now, interestingly, when the George Floyd business began in 2020, this guy kriegman began to see all kinds of claims being made, not just broadly in the culture, but at Reuters. And he realized that these claims really don't stand up to any kind of empirical evidence. And so what he did was he began his own research project to sort of look into them. And he began to examine all kinds of statements that were being made by his own media cooperation and found them to be completely faulty. Now, what kind of statements are we talking about? Well, first of all, this idea that the police disproportionately target black victims. And kriegman found that to be simply not true. The police are just as likely to identify white perpetrators, not victims, but perpetrators. I'm sorry. And in fact, the system is slightly biased against whites that was this conclusion about after carefully looking at the data. Another data point is the claim that Reuters was uncritically transmitting that somehow defunding the police and cutting police budgets has had no effect on effective policing. And this guy was like, really, let's look at the evidence. Well, it turns out that there is an effect. And you see a kind of direct correlation between the cutting back of police programs and the soaring of crime
The Dan Bongino Show
Christopher Rufo: Disney Producers Want to Push Queer Agenda Onto Kids
"You know Chris I found The New York Times in the liberal media's coverage of Disney's response to the Florida Bill Hilarious leftist groups out there eagerly pushed Disney because of their market power in Florida left this group to get involved Disney then gets involved conservatives then respond to Disney and The New York Times and the other outlets the flavor of their article Chris is Republican sees Republicans pounce on dizzy We didn't push Disney to get involved They did Yeah exactly I mean it's really amazing I punch you in the face You punch me back And then I say hey look this guy just punched me in the face I mean they have no sense of basic causality And they say well Republicans are stoking a culture war It's like no no no just listen to the videos The videos are shocking One of the executive producers says we are inserting a quote not at all secret gay agenda into content She said that she was quote queering all of the children's content reaching kids as young as two years old And one of the most bizarre things Disney is actually created an internal tracking tool to make sure that they're having enough bisexual asexual and transgender characters This is a specific attempt to engineer content to engineer children And they even admitted it One of the production coordinators said in this call on video controlling the information that reaches children that bypasses parents is a very powerful thing and we should use it We should exploit it And we should be pushing this ideology onto kids before they can even speak So to present that and then to present conservatives who are reacting to that as somehow the aggressor and the culture war is total nonsense and I think it really just shows the weakness of The New York Times opinion
The Dan Bongino Show
Christopher Rufo: We Can Change the National Conversation Online
"The social media is typically panned by people on the right like me and deservedly so because of their efforts to censor people But there has been a pretty positive externality generated from the explosion of microblogging and the immediate availability of data like this You know I think a guy's like you and Corey D'angelo on school choice I mean you two guys between school choice and your focus on CRT and the pushing of transgender and other type of ideologies into kids schools You guys have really used social media and the Internet I'm not kidding I'm not trying to say this isn't puffery You've really changed the national conversation I mean I can make a strong case that the elections in Virginia and in New Jersey that you had a lot to do with it I mean you can just dive on that if you would but I think there is a positive to social media in that you're able to take these videos and get them around quick Yeah that's absolutely right I'm happy to take credit for at least playing a part in this narrative And really social media despite its problems despite its flaws is the great equalizer You have more opportunity than ever to get information into the bloodstream of the American information economy And then as an outsider as a person who's trying to push back against these large institutions as long as you have access to the tools which I think we should fight to maintain equal and fair access information wins And if you have sources if you have ideas if you have a kind of political belief that have a constituency but don't have support in the mainstream institutions social media is absolutely it And this Disney story is the perfect example I released the Disney videos on social media I had more than 10 million impressions even on just one of those videos alone And it's driven the news cycle It's been the top of every Fox News show
WLS-AM 890
"rufo" Discussed on WLS-AM 890
"So Chris you got a hold of these now infamous Disney videos This looks like some kind of an all hands on deck a video conference call with these executives proudly discussing what appears to be introducing inappropriate sexual topics into content for kids I disturbed a lot of us They pretend to be a family friendly company But I'm wondering after hearing this are there people inside without giving up any sources or anything Chris but there are people inside of Disney who are sane conservative types who are tired of this stuff Is that one of the means by which you continue to get a lot of this material on these places Yeah that's exactly right I have multiple sources within the company and they tell me very clearly most Disney employees especially the working and middle class employees that are at its theme parks and other kind of consumer facing entities They hate this They don't want this They feel silenced by the company Which is really empowered these groups A last year I reported on Disney's practice of creating racially and sexually segregated groups empowering activists really the executives delegated moral authority to these activist organizations within the company And now they've been held hostage And so the small number of activists can really call the show and call the shots The executives kowtow back to them Even though we know that they represent a small fraction of people and the values that they're trying to promote are not in line with the majority of the American citizens
The Dan Bongino Show
Christopher Rufo: Working Class Disney Employees Hate Latest Changes
"So Chris you got a hold of these now infamous Disney videos This looks like some kind of an all hands on deck a video conference call with these executives proudly discussing what appears to be introducing inappropriate sexual topics into content for kids I disturbed a lot of us They pretend to be a family friendly company But I'm wondering after hearing this are there people inside without giving up any sources or anything Chris but there are people inside of Disney who are sane conservative types who are tired of this stuff Is that one of the means by which you continue to get a lot of this material on these places Yeah that's exactly right I have multiple sources within the company and they tell me very clearly most Disney employees especially the working and middle class employees that are at its theme parks and other kind of consumer facing entities They hate this They don't want this They feel silenced by the company Which is really empowered these groups A last year I reported on Disney's practice of creating racially and sexually segregated groups empowering activists really the executives delegated moral authority to these activist organizations within the company And now they've been held hostage And so the small number of activists can really call the show and call the shots The executives kowtow back to them Even though we know that they represent a small fraction of people and the values that they're trying to promote are not in line with the majority of the American citizens
The Charlie Kirk Show
Disney Is Making Some Major Changes Thanks to Gov. Ron DeSantis
"Disney is making some serious changes. And it's all because of Ron DeSantis in a good way, by the way, Ron DeSantis signed this bill, in Florida, which was a parental rights bill and anti grooming bill that many of the activist groups are super concerned about that 5 year olds won't be able to learn about this stuff and Disney is over the top compensating for this. I mean, it's so shockingly and stunningly, it should be a last and final warning for every family out there and every parent out there, you better stop your Disney+ subscription. You better stop your Hulu subscription. This is not okay. What Disney is doing. What exactly is Disney doing? You might ask? Let's go through some examples. And then I'm going to play some tape here that came out, which is just so extraordinary. So when you go to one of Disney's parks, Disneyland or Disney World, they will no longer use boys and girls. At any park greetings. To promote inclusivity because not everyone is a boy or girl, and they don't want to alienate, the trans people. Disney as a matter of policy will now say they will no longer use boys and girls. Disney parks are axing gendered language such as boys and girls, and ladies and gentlemen, in their park greetings to promote gender inclusivity. Disney's diversity and inclusion manager, Vivian ware, was heard speaking about the changes in a video conference call recorded by Christopher rufo will get to that in a second. We've provided training for all of our cast members in relation to that. So now they notice say hello everyone, our hello Friends. Instead of hello boys and girls. You see gender is tyrannical, according to Disney. Breaking today also Disney has made an announcement, and they said by the end of this year, half of all of the characters in Disney movies will be lesbian, gay, bisexual trans or queer.
The Dan Bongino Show
Michael Anton: Analyzing the Left's Reaction to 'Don't Say Gay' Bill
"In But I saw last week one of these things you talk about all the time is how the left wants to pretend these things don't happen They have this thing That's not happening but it's great that it is CRT That's not being taught And then we find it and be like and if you oppose it you're a racist I thought it wasn't being taught So and I saw it again last week there's a bill in Florida they're calling it the don't say gay Bill Of course it does nothing of the sort It basically just prevents young kids from being indoctrinated about sex at an early age and it's funny they're like hey listen that's not being taught in schools but if you oppose it you're definitely a bigot I got about a minute and a half left your thoughts on that Very typical tactic They push things the left gets into positions of power again This is a failure of conservative part because we tend not to run for these low level offices We tend not to show up at school board meetings Some of that's changing now In general we do we don't It leaves the left of free hand And then they surreptitiously try to sneak things in that they know will be very unpopular with parents or with the public at large When they get caught then they have to deny that it's happening Because if you admit it you're just turning up the heat on yourself But they both deny and admitted at the same time They say it's not happening but it's good that children are learn different perspectives and learn tolerance in this Well which is it Both are intended to downplay the significance and to mollify public anger but to do so dishonestly To me it is a heartening sign that these things do keep getting found out called out I mean Chris rufo has done just heroes work fighting against critical race theory It's not a battle that's won It could take a long long time to win But it shows what happens when you shine a light on this stuff and you can motivate people to get involved and show up at meetings and things like that You can make progress at pushing back against this
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"rufo" Discussed on America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
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America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Chris Rufo Describes How to Address CRT and Cancel Culture
"And we're back one on one with Chris rufo. What is your message in terms of what has to be done? Because this is scary. The new Secretary of Defense had a universal shutdown of the military for 60 days after the inauguration to find the extremists in the white supremacists is just frightening. And he used the word enemies in his Senate hearing to talk about people inside the U.S. Military. What should be the response of people like you and I who have a platform, the senators, the political commentators to address that version of critical race theory in its most obscene. And then secondly, and lastly, to those who aren't Chris rufo or said gawker, what do you say to those who are really intimidated by council culture? Yeah, well, the military question is fundamental because you've seen throughout history what happens when the military enforces political ideology. I mean, this gets in very tricky territory very quickly. Certainly the attack on Tucker Carlson is way out of line. The senior members and the responsible people in the chain of command should immediately crack down on this because what will happen is that the military will be perceived as a domestic political tool that will then alienate half the country from the troops, which I think would be catastrophic for the country and for the military in particular. But the average everyday person, look, you have to speak out. You have to develop the courage, and I would give you one single tip that will make you in some ways immune to cancel culture in your local community. The people who have successfully pushed back against within local institutions have always rallied a group. It's very easy to cancel one person. If you're standing up at a school board meeting. But if you have ten people or 20 people or 50 or a hundred people, you can't be canceled in the same
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
'America Lost' Filmmaker Chris Rufo on the Poisonous Ideology of CRT
"Welcome back to one on one with Chris roof though. All right, so I promised we'd get back to that question of how we leverage our power and how we respond. But let me ask you the personal question. We had, I'm sure you've met him. We had James Lindsay on who's written the book critical theories, which goes into quite some detail. I love this stuff. I'm a one kid Harper goes in some real real detail on. You know, why quick, very, really happened. The role of quit theory the connection to Rachel justice and blah, blah, blah, blah. And I asked him, I had to, because, you know, as a child of people who suffered under ten regimes, I said to this guy, he was born here. Why are you doing what you're doing? Why are you deciding to take on the Goliath? Why are you walking into ariadne's maze as a lone researcher? And he said, and I love his response. He said, I just saw too many of my friends suffering injustice. Across academy being pillory being having their careers destroyed because they didn't want to acquiesce to this political dogma. Let me ask you, Chris, I've seen your film, which doesn't relate directly to what we're discussing, but I think there's a very strong overlap or there's at least a tangent that connects us in terms of what's happened to America in your film America last. But let me ask you. Why are you the guy who triggered the executive order in the Trump administration, banning critical race theory? What was the motivation for you to grasp with this Medusa? Yeah, I mean, it's pretty simple. I love this country. I love what it stands for. I love what it fights for. And I think I saw this hole that's opportunity this problem that conservatives had not developed a new vocabulary to fight these threats. And I thought I was uniquely positioned to be able to articulate it and also given the kind of courage to fight for it. And I think that we need to kind of come together and fight around these inspiring ideals and not let them be degraded and debating and destroyed. And I have a heart for it. I have a heart for people that are suffering for people at the margins of our society. And I saw very clearly that critical race theory is a kind of elite ideology that serves the status of people who are already fine and well off. Yeah. But actually embedded in that theory is something enormously destructive for poor and vulnerable people in our country. And if we want to actually help poor people, if we want to help broken families, if we want to help racial minorities live the full expression of their human potential and contribute to the United States to the fullest extent we have to fight this ideology because it's poisonous. It's pets. And it's anti American to
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"rufo" Discussed on America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"From Eastern Europe. I'm not responsible for slavery in America. I'm not writing an apology letter for my racism. Are you getting anybody say? No, this is nuts. I'm not doing it or are people too cowed. I am actually getting a lot and your intuition is exactly spot on. The most kind of courageous people that I've come across in my reporting are people that immigrated from Soviet or socialist or communist countries. I talk with a lot of Chinese Americans that have begun to push back. They've told me, hey, look, I survived the cultural revolution in my home country. I'm not going to let the culture revolution happen in my new country. I've talked to eastern Europeans that say this reminds them of Soviet era propaganda when they grew up with children. I even spoke on a reporter in about woke education to a woman who was born and raised in Iran. And she said, what's happening in my child's classroom is exactly what was happening in my classroom that was run by the mullas, this kind of religious fanaticism, and it terrifies me. So we have, you know, we are the Beacon of hope for the whole world. People that want to escape real oppression around the world have historically flopped in America. And I think it should be deeply disturbing that they're sending up warning signals that they're saying, wait a minute, what's happened to us in our previous life is now happening here. We have to take those voices seriously. We have to elevate those voices and we have to get everyone together to fight back. My father were alive today a man who was liberated by freedom fighters from a communist political prison if he were alive today. I'd have to tie him down. We're recording this as I'm watching a Fox News Chiron. This is right now. Columbia University is going to hold 6 separate graduation ceremonies based upon race. And this is where it gets beyond orwellian. This is where you have to laugh a little. That's where it gets into Monty Python. These are on line. So you're not actually having to sit next to the white person if you don't want to. These are segregated virtual graduations. This is the level of insanity we are dealing with. We're talking to Chris ruffalo, follow him right now, Chris rufo, his movie, America, lost film dot com. Let's get to the the practice where the rubber meets the road. What are the transmission belts? This is like a virus. It's like an ideological virus being introduced into the corporations into the government bureaucracies into the military. How does it get injected? What is the mosquito that does the bite? I would imagine for corporate America, you're the expert. Let me just guess. The corporate America, it's the millennials or the kids who graduated ten years ago with their useless bachelors of arts in gender studies who become the HR department drones who end up as the head of HR and then use their indoctrinated garbage from Berkeley, for example, to impose that ideology on the inside of the corporations. It is something as simple as that and how does it work in government? Yeah. It is. That's part of it. And then the landscape of power and transmission is really fascinating. And it obviously started in the universities. I think another main point of transmission is graduate schools of education, so teacher training programs. If you look at the most prestigious teacher training programs, such as the one at Columbia, I mean, explicitly left wing, they're basing their entire pedagogical theories on a guy named Paolo freire, a Marxist, theoretician from Brazil, who said that we need to use the education system in order to gain revolutionary consciousness and overthrow the oppressors. This is now becoming the dominant pedagogy in many public school districts around the country. And then I think in government, we find something very interesting. And this is something where I would challenge conservatives to revise their opinion. Ten years ago, we made fun of those kids with gender studies degrees from Barnard. And, you know, these were kind of BS degrees. And that would lead them into unemployment or underemployment or some kind of basement dwelling. But in fact something different happened. These VS degrees turned into BS jobs as equity development directors as directors of diversity and inclusion as micro microaggression investigators and campuses. You now have entire bureaucracies that are dedicated to this ideology and almost every ninja institution in the country, including an especially public institutions. So you have these massive bureaucracies that are unaccountable to the marketplace, unaccountable to the profit motive unaccountable to the public in many cases, where they are internalized political divisions. And you would remember from your European history and Eastern European history every good government office or bureaucracy would have a political officer that is there to maintain ideology who was senior as the person who was actually doing the work. There was the zampolit who had to ensure political purity for everybody else who was actually doing the stuff. All of you out there know that my pillow doesn't have giant box stores or any shopping channels..
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"rufo" Discussed on America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"Dot com studios. This is America first with Sebastian gorka. Welcome back to mister CRT. Chris rufo. So you mentioned some of these anti capitalists. These people who wish to destroy America tell us who they teach who they consult to and the kinds of money these anti capitalists, like Robert Angelo, Angela Davis, and Ibrahim Kennedy make. So as anti capitalist, they're doing quite well on. They Kris. Hey, yeah. Yeah, and that's really the rub, right? I mean, no one is really anti capitalist. If you look at the four remaining, the three rather remaining socialist and communist countries in Asia, you know, China is a communist country Vietnam as a continuous country. I believe it's Cambodia as the third one. They all have a smaller government as a share of DD GDP than the United States. Actually, in practice, the government of the United States is more socialistic than all of the remaining socialist countries. Everyone knows that capitalism is the great generator of wealth. And for a lot of the critical race theorists, they preach anti capitalism because it's fashionable. It's chic. It's perceived as high status, but they all practice the lives of vicious and greedy capitalists. They won't do it accumulate resources and money. They'll take money from oil companies from technology companies from everybody to feed themselves from the capitalist machine. But they justify it by saying that this is simply redistribution. This is simply taking the fruits of illegitimate capitalist capital accumulation and redistributing it to the great kind of proletariat minds that make up the Vanguard of this revolution. And if you look throughout history, the communists have always impoverished the poor and enriched the powerful. This is a thing that has happened in every communist revolution since the very first one in Russia in 1917. The cadre, the elite, the party members, always suck up the wealth and labor of their countries in order to further their political goals while impoverishing the people that they're purported to help. It's no different in the kind of hyper capitalists the United States than it is in the hyper communist Soviet Union of a hundred years ago. Well, the only difference is that everybody lived in drudgery. He was a member of the working classes. No duchess in those zell limousines for anybody no matter how hard they tried. But what I want to ask you is with those who are preaching this here, how are they doing? How are the anti capitalists like talk to us about white fragility and Robin D'angelo? How much is Robert D'angelo charge for one of her wife fragility seminars? Yeah, Robin diangelo is an amazing figure. She's kind of like a kind of like if you were to come up with a parody or a caricature. It couldn't get better than the actual real person. And you know, she gives white fragility seminars. I think she's getting paid something like $20,000 for a one MR Zoom call. And you know, on one hand, all power to her. I'd love to get paid $20,000 for one hour Zoom call. I hope I get there one day. I'd have no shame in it. But you wouldn't like to get that while teaching anti capitalism. There's a bit of a contradiction there, isn't it? That's exactly right. It's like, I would do it as a proud capitalist that supporter of capitalism. And as a kind of a reflection of my kind of value in the marketplace, but this is really the kind of paradox. Someone like Robin diangelo teaches that white all whites, including white women are racist. And they should center the voices of women of color. And yet she seems to be centering her own voice more than anyone else. And sucking up all of those anti racism training dollars for herself. And the hypocrisy though, I think that is the point. The hypocrisy is a reflection, not of a kind of moral contradiction, but it reflection of their actual political and social power in our world as it exists today. They're able to preach something that is antithetical to their practice, but they can do it and get away with it because they hold the levers of power. Conservatives won't improve our country by simply complaining about hypocrisy. We need to fundamentally change the landscape of power in our country so that his hypocrisy like this is actually punished, not rewarded. Okay, now that's a pretty big sentence. I think we could spend the next three hours on that sentence. How we use the levers of power to reverse that. But let's just stop here for a second because I think you use the phrase. This is not well. Here's the rub of the issue. You say, and I agree. Pointing out the apocalypse. I mean, one of our dick Cole has just texted me to say, oh my gosh, did you hear how much the secretary of Homeland Security just lied about the border? And I feel like telling this is a nice lady. What were you expecting? We expecting that he would deny there's a crisis in the border. And you've just hit the nail. The hypocrisy is the point. You can not do anything. Nothing will change or say, well, look, she teaches X and she's doing wise. She's anti capitalist anti American, getting on a Zoom technology to earn $25,000 for 50 minute lectures. So pointing out the hypocrisy is irrelevant. The question is, what do you do about it? So I'll let that simmer for a second. We'll wrap the discussion with that. But right now, you have the sources. I think you're probably the best connected individual when it comes to gathering or being provided the evidence of what is actually going on, not just in the corporations and through the mandatory HR Sessions, but in U.S. government in the bureaucracies and in the U.S. Military. So for those who think this is just some abstruse analysis that has no relevance to anything that the real life is about. Will you give them concrete examples of what is happening in these corporations in these departments of government and in the U.S. Military? What are people being told they have to do and how are they being treated by these experts on social justice and critical race?.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Activist and Filmmaker Chris Rufo Talks All Things 'Anti-Capitalist'
"Welcome back to mister CRT. Chris rufo. So you mentioned some of these anti capitalists. These people who wish to destroy America tell us who they teach who they consult to and the kinds of money these anti capitalists, like Robert Angelo, Angela Davis, and Ibrahim Kennedy make. So as anti capitalist, they're doing quite well on. They Kris. Hey, yeah. Yeah, and that's really the rub, right? I mean, no one is really anti capitalist. If you look at the four remaining, the three rather remaining socialist and communist countries in Asia, you know, China is a communist country Vietnam as a continuous country. I believe it's Cambodia as the third one. They all have a smaller government as a share of DD GDP than the United States. Actually, in practice, the government of the United States is more socialistic than all of the remaining socialist countries. Everyone knows that capitalism is the great generator of wealth. And for a lot of the critical race theorists, they preach anti capitalism because it's fashionable. It's chic. It's perceived as high status, but they all practice the lives of vicious and greedy capitalists. They won't do it accumulate resources and money. They'll take money from oil companies from technology companies from everybody to feed themselves from the capitalist machine. But they justify it by saying that this is simply redistribution. This is simply taking the fruits of illegitimate capitalist capital accumulation and redistributing it to the great kind of proletariat minds that make up the Vanguard of this revolution. And if you look throughout history, the communists have always impoverished the poor and enriched the powerful. This is a thing that has happened in every communist revolution since the very first one in Russia in 1917. The cadre, the elite, the party members, always suck up the wealth and labor of their countries in order to further their political goals while impoverishing the people that they're purported to help. It's no different in the kind of hyper capitalists the United States than it is in the hyper communist Soviet Union of a hundred years
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"rufo" Discussed on America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"And all Americans should be aware of that distinction, because what they try to do is they say Black Lives Matter and critical race theory inherited the mantle of Martin Luther King. But if you look at their intellectual work in many ways, they're opposed to the vision of Martin Luther King. Why? Can you unpack that? Why is Martin Luther King's vision? Antithetical to Black Lives Matter, for example. Well, in the 1960s, you had two competing visions of civil rights and equality. You had the partners there king vision that famously proclaimed that he wanted to treat people based on the content of their character not the color of their skin. So this was equal protection under the law. Protection of individual rights, protection of a kind of colorblind society that would allow minorities and other disenfranchised people to rise in our society. There was another vision though. This was from Malcolm X. This was from the Black Panther Party. This was from Angela Davis and the Communist Party USA. They said, no, no, no. Equal rights is merely a sham. It's a disguise that would enable capitalism and white supremacy to continue to thrive. We need total revolution against the United States as a nation. It's irredeemable, it's fundamentally corrupt. Thankfully, the vision of the civil rights movement, which again was not just black Americans, but was Americans of all racial groups and even Americans of both political parties. It won the day, but again, we see this kind of revival of that old tradition of radicalism of revolution of Marxist inspired ideology that is creeping up into our discourse again today. Now, what is the end state? If these are individuals who have realized because of the writings of gram shee or alinsky or others that you can't affect in a non agrarian non feudal society, you can't have a Marxist revolution has happened in tsarist Russia or in China in 1948. You can't do that. So we're going to we're going to change the class division bases for this ideology and break it down into heterosexual versus homosexual white versus black the heterosexual versus the transgender. If that's the case, is this just and I don't want to oversimplify it. I'm trying to get inside the mind of these peoples like the people at candy and Angela Davis. Is this just a veiled a cloaked version of Marxism? Is this just a repackaging? And if they say America is irredeemable, which they do, then what is the end state, Chris that they are trying to achieve? Well, this is kind of the trick. They've become very kind of clever with their language. And they never say we want to Marxist revolution to overthrow the United States. But it really is embedded in their theoretical ideas. And ibram can't be famously says you can't be antiracist without being anti capitalist. So again, a kind of basic Marxist economic foundation of anti capitalism, grafted onto a kind of new wave idea of so called antiracism. And, you know, if you look at even someone like Cheryl Harris, a professor at Harvard and UCLA law schools, who is a foundational scholar and critical race theory, she says, you know, we need to actually suspend private property rights for a time so that we can redistribute land and wealth sees it from the wealthy and redistributed along racial lines. So this is, again, the kind of basic beginning of socialism. I mean, socialism and Marxism in another guys. It is. And I think that it's quite clear. And then again, ibram kendi, the kind of new guru of this movement, he put out an article in Politico, stating that he wanted to have a department of anti racism that was not accountable to any other branch of government that could veto nullify or eliminate any law in any part of the country and also have the power to regulate speech from policymakers and think tanks and journalists. And then if you are not antiracist, the government could silence and punish you. So you have critical race there is arguing against capitalism against the constitution against the idea of individual rights against private property. And against free speech of, guess what? When you're against all 5 of those fundamental American values, you are advocating for a kind of radical revolution, even if you don't say it. So I think we should be very aware of the endgame very aware of the theoretical foundations and push back very aggressively against this because if they have their way of truly be the end of.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"rufo" Discussed on America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"May contain prerecorded material. This is America first, and here's your host doctor Sebastian gorka. Over the past week after you watch what's going on, we can't be under any illusions about the fact that racism is alive and well in our country and I can't be in any illusions. But we don't have it in our navy. It's always the case dear Friends, a story may break in the news, but it's origins are much older and go much deeper and Sebastian, this is America first with a very special interview. Somebody was on the show recently for just a couple of segments, but you wanted more. He is the man who has done more than most to actually shed a light on the corrosive effects of something called critical race theory throughout the United States and especially the government. Welcome back Chris rufo to America first. It's great to be with you. Director of the discovery institute center on wealth and poverty. He is the director of the produce of a fabulous movie called America lost. You've got to see it, America lost film dot com. His work led in large part, if not the lion's share to the initiation. The initiative of the Trump administration to ban critical race theory from federal government, visiting fellow at the heritage foundation, Chris, I started on discussion welcome back without video because that video of an officer in full combat dress is from somebody called Mike gilday, who holds the rank of CNO, which is the chief of naval operations. It's the highest officer in the U.S. Military responsible for our navy in our marines, being able to do their war fighting jobs. And that video wasn't from last week. It wasn't a reaction this weekend to Tucker Carlson and Fox News. That was from the last year. That was the chief of naval operations, making a video to the whole fleet. All the sailors, all the marines across the United States saying, you know, my issue is racism in the military. Chris, what we're seeing happening right now has a far longer trail to it than a far deeper orange origins does it not? Right, it does. And I think what we're seeing and especially in the last year is that all of our lead institutions, including the military have been really cowed into the mantra of antiracist. I mean, I think the problem is that someone like this soldier military brass failed to separate the premise from the conclusion. So the premise is true. This is obvious. All of us would agree. There's been a history of racism in the United States just like any other society throughout history. We can agree on the premise, but what they do is they jump straight to the conclusion from the Black Lives Matter organization or the democratic socialists or the critical race theorists like ibram kendi. They have a prepackaged set of solutions. But a truly wise leader, which I would love to see, especially in our military, because it's so vital, would be able to separate the premise from the conclusion that it would say, hey, let's acknowledge the existence of racism, historically, technology, even the persistence of some residual racism. How can we come together to fight this in a way that unifies all Americans? But unfortunately, people are so scared that they automatically accept not only the premise but the conclusion from the rates theorems that frankly don't follow, they're not logically coherent. They're not actually good for our society. They prey on division rather than the unification. And I think it's tremendously dangerous to see it in a place like our military. The military exists to fight and to win wars. Not to propagate HR programs from anti racism, diversity trainers, such as these. So critical race theory is the latest phenomenon. It's the most obvious the most blatantly corrosive, but let's go back in time. You've done lots of fieldwork you've written seminal pieces given interviews that I think are responsible for the fabulous response of the last administration. But critical race theory is just one facet of critical theory. So can you walk us through the origins of where this phenomenon where this way of thinking actually originally came from grace? Yeah, critical theory started in the 1930s and then really through kind of came to full fruition in the 1960s. And these are basically left wing Marxist intellectuals from Europe who had seen the disaster of actual Marxism and communism in the Soviet Union. They also realized that Marxism and communism would never be able to come to fruition in the United States and in Western Europe, which had large middle classes that they weren't in revolt against the against the bourgeoisie. So they really started to think, how can we adapt Marxism not on economic terms, but along social cultural and then racial terms, how can we foment the kind of social revolution against capitalism through cultural politics and the cultural revolution? And many of these folks celebrated the cultural revolution in China, which ended up in the deaths of millions of people from purges and persecutions. And after that was, again, shown to be a human disaster that led to death and destruction. They morphed it again into critical race theory, trying to come up with a legal and kind of intellectual framework to oppose the American Declaration of Independence, the American constitution, the Fourteenth Amendment guaranteeing equal rights. And even in many cases, the Civil Rights Act, critical race theory is not an extension of the American civil rights movement. Actually, it's in many cases, opposed to the civil rights movement..
Mike Gallagher Podcast
The Real Racists Are People on the Left
"The real racists are people on the left. Say that blacks are too dumb to get a photo ID to go vote. You know, the condescending the condescending patronizing subtle racism of the left mission Greg gutfeld called out MSNBC and these two horrible, horrible anchors over their joy Reid and Nicole wall, Wallace, you want to play that game? Well, aren't you a racist? For not covering the incredible story of lieutenant governor winsome Sears of Virginia? All right, I got a few comments. Number one, Nicole Wallace says CRT doesn't exist, but WMD did. She's ignorant and lazy. The data was there. Chris rufo did a tremendous job. Brianna keeler, she went from eating crickets to eating crows. She keeps at it. She'll be chowing down, desiccated rodents. What's her name Kirsten powers was on there? She's putting out a book about grace about how to treat people better while she brands a million people is racist because of the way they vote. How can you speak of grace when you smear so many people? God isn't pleased with you, Kirsten, God is not pleased. They're all racist, right? Brianna, Nicole, Kirsten, joy Reid, because they ignored Sears. The first black woman, the first woman of color to win a statewide election in Virginia. Why? Because she dared to leave the plantation of ideology that these white women enjoyed Reed believe she should stay on. They are the racists. They are the
Mark Levin
Christopher Rufo's Reaction to the Federalization of School Board Meetings
"Chris ruco senior fellow Manhattan institute who's been on top of this critical race theory issue for years Chris thank you for all that you've done and all that you're doing You know this national school board association letter I was an old school board member when I was 19 or 20 years old This board represents nobody This looks like an inside job They write a letter on the 29th with all these allegations of very few examples And to the president of the United States and then within 5 days the Department of Justice issues this Stasi like memo What do you make of this Yeah I think it's absolutely clear from the timing and also the context that school board officials as well as the national teachers union including Randy weingarten and the NEA which represent millions of public school teachers They're starting to lose the argument about critical race theory about masking and schools And so they realized that they have to take more heavy handed measures So they reached out to their longtime partners people who are willing to do their bidding and the Biden administration And you see immediate compliance and then immediate celebration from the school board association president from the national teachers union president This is a very clear politicization of the Justice Department of the FBI of the office of attorney general to send it very clear signal If you're protesting against the authorities in your local area we're going to monitor you We're going to suppress you We're going to chill your speech and you're very basic rights of speech and assembly I think it's very concerning And I'm glad that people are starting to take notice and push
Have You Seen This Man?
John Ruffo: The Fugitive that Disappeared
"The two had a simple meal out together at a coffee shop out of character. Rufo astor's wife for another date the next night and he seemed very edgy. I was talking like you know. I hope after this. We just have that simple life. That i always wanted with you. Simple is better and the next day we had my parents over as usual and his mom and he wanted all these favorite italian delicacies appetizers that we went shopping the day before and She went and visited my neighbor. Who is kathy and michael. Who took me in michael's from italy as it turned out he was asking michael where his mom lives in italy that maybe he can visit her. Because we're going to take a trip soon. It would be their final night together. Rufo vanished the next day and never said goodbye really hurt. He said goodbye to other people in a way just in the middle of the night. I know this is kind of personal but in the middle of the night. He kinda hugged me then. He couldn't look at me buried his face in my neck. He said something. But i don't remember. I couldn't hear what it was. As linda recounted those final hours it was hard not to spot the clues he kept bringing it up one place that seemed to captivate him italy
The Charlie Kirk Show
Google Launches Anti-Racism Campaign, Says We're All "Raised to Be Raised"
"Google the leviathan. The most powerful organization on the planet has now launched a new anti-racism initiative for all of their employees claiming that america is quote a system of white supremacy and that all americans are quote raised to be racist. They have a white supremacy pyramid. Christopher rufo rights. I've obtained a trove of whistle blower documents from the inside of google revealed a company's extensive racial reeducation program based on the core tenants of critical race theory including intersection algae white privilege and systemic racism in a module called ally ship in action. Google train their employees to deconstruct racial and sexual identities and then ranked themselves hierarchy of power and privilege and manner manager reactions through crying and assessing their happy place in a video guest lecturer henry rogers. Otherwise known as abram x. kennedy claimed that all americans including children as young as three months old are racist quote to be raised in the united states is to be raised to be racist and to be raised to rice. Racist is to be raised to be almost addicted to racist ideas. Denial of racism that a person is racist quote for me is the heartbeat of racism. Is denial and the sound of that. Denial is that. I'm not racist can told google employees. It's a critical critically important for americans to no longer being denial about their own racism and another lecture. Google paid nicole. Hannah jones claim that she created and she created the sixteen nineteen project to verify lifelong theory that everything in modern day united states can be traced back to slavery. If you name anything in america i can relate it back to slavery
Have You Seen This Man?
"rufo" Discussed on Have You Seen This Man?
"The marshals were on the hunt for one new stream of information. And i was looking for another by trying to track down the man behind one of the more unusual spy cases in fbi history. Earl pitts served twenty four years in prison after pleading guilty to espionage but now he had come home to missouri on a family farm he had resumed a peaceful life reading books and enjoying the solitude and natural beauty of the land where he grew up. He agreed to me in springfield and to see if he could help us. Find some clarity about john. Rufo use wanted to make sure you're comfortable doing this. That this is okay with your plea agreement and your parole and everything else notice. I'm trying to think of where best to start. i i wanted to. I wanna talk about you in new york russians in new york. I wanna talk about rufo and his environment and what he was doing. I mean ultimately the purpose of this conversation is to and help us understand where john rufo might be your how he might have gotten away. That's i played pits recording of that first conversation with linda invoking his name. I wanted him to understand why i'd reached out to him and i wanted to see how he'd react. And you had mentioned that one of the agents was a man named earl hits and what was the connection there. That name kept coming up so she brought up your name because one of the things that john rufo did during this period after he had been arrested was that he tried to claim that he was a cooperator with the fbi previously and that his company ccs was a front company for the fbi was wondering if that rings any bells with you or his name as you look back now. The the first time. I ever heard the name john rufo was when you you brought it up to man and in the context of this conversation i showed pets documents from the rufo court file in which he had invoked kits his name along with other f. b. i. Agents from the new york office. He paused and read them carefully. What do you think from your with any of those names on there other than than my own on that loss where he would be gotten my name. Does the description that he gives of the work. He says he was doing ring. True to you as something that would have been done out of the new york office of the fbi operations like that in general would wouldn't be unusual pits never wavered on this. I showed him rufus picture. He said he simply did not know eh. As i shared more details about rufus claims he tended to agree with the position that federal prosecutors took at the time that rufo was trying to bootstrap his past government work to the outlandish crime he had committed. And of course. It's it's certainly possible that he was working with the fbi and doing illegal activities separate from bounce It's not unusual at all for informed soil or assets to cooperate with with the fbi or other law enforcement agencies on on one level. Hoping that they'll be there to to vouch for them or give them some some sort of cover for other illegal activities that they're not disclosing to their agents pitt said his read was that once rufa was in trouble he had tried to exploit the relationship he had built with. Fbi agents and maybe. He said with the soviets as well. I would certainly consider his the context that he made with soviets. Yeah he he might be a worthwhile target for intelligence officer just because of the people he you do. You think that the soviets at that time would have been receptive to outreach from somebody with his knowledge base. His background absolutely. They're they're always up to. Yeah someone who who had access to. Computers could acquire computers for them who who has contacted them even if they believed that this person was behalf of the fbi believe they would be receptive to him. At this moment. i couldn't help it. Ask pits about his own experience. I mean this was someone who had allegedly made his own plan to mountain escape as fbi. Director louie freeh told reporters after his arrest your starting indicated. It was an emergency escape plan and it was a plan which he developed. An which was a subject of great concern. Obviously during the course. I ask you about your personal experience because i watched that press conference that louis freeh held after your arrest where he insinuate use it outright That that you had a plan to leave the country and is that true. Did you contemplate leaving the country or or at being exfiltrated in some way pitt said it was the fbi working to trap him who pretended to be russians offering an escape plan which he says he rejected an my rejection. I told them. I i had a plan. And how would need their help. I wondered if he had any insights about rousseau here. I was talking with a convicted spy. Who had his own exfiltration plan did he think rufo had a plan or could have asked the russians for help in getting away at intelligence service.
The Andrew Klavan Show
"rufo" Discussed on The Andrew Klavan Show
"And you know the things that they said. Hey chris these are the problems. These are the obstacles. These are the things that we need to. In order to advance to kind of full dignity and equality of person Have nothing to do with what people like even candy and robin dangelo and other kind of narcissistic peddlers of the new ideology Are proposing. And i think that it it really. Is this kind of cynical academic game that cements their own status gives them authority in. Hr programs kind of petty tyranny of corporate hr but actually offers nothing to people at the bottom. And i'm not convinced that they even care as long as it's serving their own interests. You know this is kind of a theme of today. Show is that were really. We're not really dealing with left versus right. We're really dealing with elites versus the rest of us. And i just as i always say that. Ao should ask yourself why so. Many corporations and rich people donate to her. 'cause when she's supposed to be for the little guy guys like ton. Pc coats ought to ask themselves. Why is it that they get all these prizes from elite white people. It's because they know that the things he's recommending you're not gonna make his kids rivals to their kids. I think that that's part of exactly what they're doing. They're actually cementing elites they'll let some black is into the elite but it's not gonna help the average joe black or white. Who wants to get ahead. If if i said to you well you know this is some obscure stuff and obscure theories and there's articles and who cares. Where is this going to pop up in my life in an ordinary person's life and that's the thing i mean i think that in thirty years ago it's not a lot of time. This was really a kind of obscure sub discipline of a sub discipline in academia but You're going to find critical race theory everywhere in every institution that you participate in and especially if you're in a blue leaning state like i am in washington state or you are in california. It's now part of the curriculum or k through twelve education. it's at every university for higher education. Churches are now starting to adopt critical race theory in many cases Your or hr department at your. You know technological mega corp as definitely already implemented d. I training And you'll get it in your local library. For example you know our local library and king county is now hosting a racially segregated programmes under the banner of social justice. And it's it's i. I think it's a not exaggerate. When i say it is now the default operating ideology of most of the major institutions in the united states. And it has a couple different names. It's diversity equity inclusion cultural competency empowerment sensitivity training Ethnic studies You know an social justice studies but all of those euphemisms and all of those kind of Branches of influence within the institutions all trace back to critical race theory which of course traces back to the kind of radical politics of the nineteen sixties. So what are you doing. I mean you've been really you. You were right on top of this. You're part of your work is why donald trump got rid of the stuff In in reaction to your work. What are you doing to fight this. Yeah well i think you know really three things and my strategy all laid out. Because i know that no no progressive are probably watching. So it's safe. I share with your audience but You know it's really strategies. One is investigative reporting. I'm reporting on whistleblowers in in you know. dozens now. Hundreds of institutions whether in academia corporations universities showing the actual concrete content of these programs which has drawn a huge audience because it's so outrageous Second there's now a movement. I hosted zoom call recently of sixty different groups around the country that are saying critical race. Theory is now entered. Our school entered our curriculum. it's dividing students. I reported on a school in cupertino where they were forcing eight year olds to deconstruct their racial and sexual identities and then rank themselves according to their power and privilege Luckily these parent groups are taking action. So there's a grassroots effort. But the thing i'm most excited about is the third plank in the platform is this were launched essentially a decentralized and relentless campaign of legal warfare. I've recruited now have more than one hundred attorneys across the country volunteer to help on this effort. And we're finding plaintiffs or filing lawsuits and we're basically making the argument. You know making the gambit that critical race theory is not only morally and intellectually bankrupt. But actually if you implemented institutions it traffics and racial stereotyping It traffics and collective race-based based a guilt and harassment and then also compels speech of from government employees when they're employed in the public sector. And this is not only wrong. But it's actually illegal under the nineteen sixty four civil rights act and it's also unconstitutional under are under the us constitution. So we're hoping that over time you know in the short term. We're going to win. Some cases get some settlements make waves in the press over the long term. The kind of brass ring is for us to a win in the united states. Supreme court And immediately changed the risk calculus of for every institution in the country. That's considering these programs. That's that's very cool. That my my last question for you then is what what is an ordinary person do. When he confronts the stuff. I have i have a feature on the show. I answer questions in the mail bag. And one of the mailbag questions today is from somebody who is attending graduate school in new york city for an mfa in painting and the annual show this year is a by pock exhibition meaning. They show displaying the talent of black indigenous people of color and he says the issue with the show for him is that it means that he's be basically being locked out of an opportunity. He feels that this is a violation of civil rights law and of title. I guess it would be titled six seven But he feels and he wants to know. He says. This is his question he says. Is this worth fighting over. A friend tells me i up against the dominating ideology the time and nothing can come from fighting except my own cancellation. Do you think this is an issue worth fighting over. The show will give a lot of exposure to emerging artists. Just not ones of a particular skin color. What's what would your answer to this guy be. Yeah it depends. It depends on your kind of your life and your circumstances and your ask but i think one thing is if you're an artist dropout of those institutions. I mean they have nothing to offer you. I was a documentary filmmaker primarily for tbs for ten years. And i realized that this was the direction it's going. I could never fulfil my own kind of creativity and my owned inside amount character in that system so i dropped out and did something different But if you are kind of on your home turf right if this is your school your church your your workplace fight back and i think it takes courage which is the thing that that we need more than anything. It also takes a kind of intelligent way of fighting. Get marshall the right language make an alliance among people within the institution that that are thinking like minded way and then push back gently and then a little more firmly and a little more firmly and make a stand because this stuff is wrong and You shouldn't be afraid or ashamed to push back against it and frankly In less people have the courage to stand up This will be the society that we live in. And if you care about your community you care about this country Now is the time to take a stand. Chris really good to see. And i appreciate your coming on. If people want to get on the christopher rufo train where do they go. Yeah you can find me on twitter at real chris rufo or visit my website. Christopher rufo dot com that's christopher are ufo dot com..
The Andrew Klavan Show
"rufo" Discussed on The Andrew Klavan Show
"So as you know in the show we like bring on occasionally somebody who is intelligent and articulate just for change of pace Today we wanna talk to christopher rufo because he is dealing with some of the most important things that are coming out of washington. He's been dealing a lot with the white privilege critical race theory training. That is being foisted upon people not just in the by the government but also at the corporate level. A filmmaker writer policy researcher a contributing editor. As am i to city journal and a research fellow at the discovery institute's center on wealth poverty and morality. Chrissy there. I'm here to be with you. It's good to see you. How you doing terry well very well. I want to begin by just a plain this clip of biden signing one of his endless Executive orders This one on equity look in the weeks ahead. I'll be reaffirming. The federal government's commitment to diversity equity and inclusion and accessibility building. On the work we started in the obama administration. That's why i'm rescinded. The previous administrations harmful ban on diversity and sensitivity training and abolish the offensive counterfactual. Seventeen seventy six commission. Unity and healing must begin with understanding and truth not ignorance and lies. So you hear that. Chris what do you think what. What are you imagining. He's actually saying yeah. It's it's really great. I think he embodies perfectly machiavelli's idea that you need to perform the virtues while you can execute under the surface devices and you look at the language right where it's diversity inclusion and equity the acronym that i like is not. Da i would actually d i e you know that's what happens theory institutions once you implement it but it's a subtle shift right and i think this is deliberate the american value of equality that this country was founded on imperfectly. That abraham lincoln Sacrificed four and then the civil rights movement actualized to a degree that we hadn't seen before is equality and that's the rhetoric for the last two hundred and fifty years of the united states towards which we go he's replace it with equity and the idea behind equity and critical race. Theory is that those old values individual rights freedom of speech private property the constitution Give the kind of camouflage or the pretext of equality but they really high. The kind of subterranean racial domination and it should be replaced with equity which is not the protection of individual rights but the apportionment of privileges power and wealth based on group identities so his languages soothing and of healing equity unity of but under the surface the ideology that he is proposing is is radical. it's a anti-constitutional deliberately And it's Quite dangerous equity. I mean this idea that you can give give things to a race is just a racist idea. It seems to me but we're being told now that if we believe that there should be. We should try to act without racism. We're being told that that is in fact. Racism itself is out of. Is that a fair assessment. Yeah it actually becomes very difficult. I've seen articles in academic journals and the popular press where now a logic is white supremacist. Math is white supremacist. Objectivity is white supremacists. Color blindness is white. Supremacist i mean. It really is the kind of blanket accusation at anything that people don't like that want to implement which i think is kind of intellectually at hard kind of marxist theory where you look at the critical race theorists and you always ask will okay. Racism is every ever-present and and just as damaging now as it was one hundred years ago just in a different more subtle form. What do you want. What is the solution and at the end of the day and in the literature dating back to the nineteen nineties. it's large scale seizure of property and assets. Redistribution of land along the african declaw oneal model And a kind of restructuring of society so that all of the statistics provide kind of mathematically equal outcomes. And we've tried that. That's a that's a political kind of proposal that has been that that was proposed in the eighteen forties a attempted in the twentieth century and led to nothing but heartbreak. And i find it just astonishing that someone like joe biden who to me is not a radical. He's a kind of new deal retail politics democrat would be just allowing this to be his. Nf centerpiece of the first few weeks of his administration. It is amazing to me. When i hear people say that logic is white. Supremacists or math is rate is white supremacist. It's amazing to me that people don't point out how incredibly racist that is how incredibly a denigrating that is to people who are not white To say that. They can't do math that they can't do Use logic is just an incredible incredibly racist statement get you have been you've been in the forefront of battling critical race theory if you could sum up critical race theory and a couple of sentences so we know what we're talking about. What what is it even mean. What is critical racer. Yeah critical. Race theory is the idea that society can be divided neatly into oppressor and oppressed. So it's takes taking that old ag- alien marxist dynamic but in the nineteen sixties the they realized that oppressor and oppressed wasn't really bourgeoisie and the proletariat so they took the economic categories they replaced him with racial categories In kind of simple terms white and black and critical race theories basic idea is that Scholars and legal scholars and activists should look explicitly at racial dynamics. That racism is ever present. A racism is everywhere at all times and that the united states is in the institutions of the united states that preach liberal democratic values Really use those as a pretext for oppressing people of color and that the way forward is not through. Those liberal. democratic values is not through the constitution and the law but actually through dismantling all of those oppressive power systems. It's pretty amazing. I mean just in in san francisco where the schools are shut down. They're taking george washington. And abraham lincoln's name off schools. That's what the school boards are meeting to do while the schools are shut down for minority. Kids can't go and get an education. It's pretty amazing to me that they put forward these theories that as far as i can tell from what i've read. They have no factual basis. I mean i don't see any proof a that this is this is the case that the that endemic systemic. Racism is what is keeping people down. Would be that these things actually make anybody's life better. That's what i don't see. I mean i suppose that if you are Saying if the government is saying to you. Oh we're going to take these guys money and give that money to you. I can see where that would kind of make your mouth water. If that's what you thought was a good idea. But i can't see any proof that these theories are based in fact or be that they will make people's lives better. Am i missing something. No actually day while they reject your kind of white hetero normative patriarchal conception of of objectivity and facts in evidence. No really they. They say that acts evidence and logic are actually kind of white supremacist A white supremacist. Victimology and we actually value a narrative and the feelings and impressions of of minority individuals Above them so they they make it unfalsifiable not way. But you're right. I mean the evidence is really clear. And i think that at heart to me critical race theory and the kind of aligned. Ideologies are deeply pessimistic. I mean they don't acknowledge any form of progress. They known acknowledge That that in a society of truly equal opportunities They don't believe that. That is good enough or would actually lead to greater equality. And i think that the the kind of people who are really pushing it and this is the thing that really incenses me about it is that it serves to maintain the elite social status of academics and journalists and bureaucrats and policymakers but it doesn't offer anything for people who are at the bottom of the social ladder of any racial group and i spent and we talked about it. I spent five years documenting. Life and three of america's boris cities a white city. White neighborhood. a black neighborhood a latino neighborhood and three different regions.
Scam Goddess
"rufo" Discussed on Scam Goddess
"Monroe quote from one of those mean pages. No this is the real note fairly definitely from me. I'm definitely a but don't look for me. 'cause i'm dead somewhere. You'll never find so he was Whether they really. I mean he loves to travel so the who oh goodness running from the law is actually what i said. I deteriorated should be doing so. Oh wow see. He's living his dream. Yes so okay so. Nobody believed that he actually died. After ruffo vanished. The government went after his family and friends for any information is whereabouts. The family put up their houses for bond. Ma most of whom were in their seventies and eighties were forced out of their homes on. Mother died shortly after alone in a nursing. Home man. okay. Do we think that rufo broke these people off with coin in exchange for their house and lateral. Cms messed up. If he just he really got six people to like hold him down and then he left them all homelessness. I see i don't ever think about the other side of bond like if they don't if they do decide to run off and they just lose all your friend. Oh not only. Do you lose your. You are now like you're saying. I'm accountable for this person. I don't know. I don't think you've gotta go. Do daytime satellite back. I i don't. I don't really know what happens but i know you probably get in trouble because it's kind of like you're saying i'm there guarding them saying by. I don't know what happens. Because i take your collateral but i don't know if there's anything like penalizing beyond that but i am like damn that's fucked up like but i guess i also like gives the government that like there's another incentive for somebody else to be looking for this other than yeah. Yeah oh absolutely. If you watch house back you better find your friend. Lou can't believe he did that. Rufo is definitely type of person that acts and thinks only in the moment and for in enforcing itself. So i mean you know they're both they're buffalo shady fahey former. Us attorney general. We're getting to the end of this For the eastern district of virginia which was prosecuting. The case said he did this huge huge fraud. This wild wild scheme. Why all kinds of people didn't pick up on it. You gotta be kidding. Me where the accountants where was literally anyone with a brain where were you. us attorney. Yeah right i criticize criticize cortisol. Right out you four. Three fingers pointing back at you. Basically regarding his bail. Obviously in retrospect the government should have screamed bloody murder that and it should have been revoked. Rufo is still at large with a twenty five thousand dollars reward for any information related to his captive or his capture. So that's the us marshals like top fifteen most wanted list since two thousand. We'll put that in the head. Which i want to see if you wanna find him and maybe try to get the bag. Oh rufo now that. He's a his older age literally. Looks like any old man who works at bodega near you. Lying anybody anal taylor right. Or he's italy. I wonder he got a whole new family though. He's definitely got a whole new life and he definitely got life wherever he is he got money. He's believed this eight million dollars like we living overseas awhile. See i believe in and thing is. He's already cool with living low key. So it ain't lifing ever blow. He probably somewhere with a one bedroom house. Like all i need is a roof over my head. And i don't wanna be locked in a cage. Come on rufo tomorrow. What the simple things in life are guys. We're gonna take a quick break for some non-scheme advertisements. We'll be back with the saddest part of the show. The end where joe.
Talk, Tales and Trivia
"rufo" Discussed on Talk, Tales and Trivia
"We are going to be racist. There is no way that we can come together. White privilege and white supremacy are a huge barrier to the black and brown culture. In america white people and white men in particular should be called out for being oppressors and for keeping the black and brown americans oppressed. That's terrible there. Is something wrong with this construct as i have always known and felt that all americans have freedoms and are equal and have opportunities just like everybody else. We all have freedoms to think and use our minds to construct how we feel. I believe that no one is oppressing anyone if you have that believe that is your own belief and perhaps just perhaps in my opinion you need to adjust that belief on your own and perhaps just perhaps through self reflection on. Only you know that. Chris rufo said he has a new. Finding american express employees particularly white employees were barred from using certain phrases and language as part of the company's anti-racist etiquette echoing controversial tents of critical race theory. Well now it's getting into everything not just schools. They explicitly told white employees. That they can't even say we are all human and if they say this they're going to be considered racist micro aggressors against african americans in a separate instance american express employees were told they cannot say anyone who works hard in the us can become successful. What and in his research rufo wrote an article entitled what i found out about critical race theory shocked me and it shocked me reading it well. He says critical race theory is an academic discipline claims that the united states was founded on racism. Oppression and white supremacy. Well we know that we know that's the tents and that these forces are still at the root of our society but are they. He goes on to the surprise of many americans. This basic package of ideas has become part of the curriculum in some school districts across the country. I hate knowing this but the resulting lessons have discovered through my reporting and this..
The Rubin Report
"rufo" Discussed on The Rubin Report
"We're gonna end up in some sort of south africa situation. Rufo tweeted back and said that he's optimistic. And i responded and i basically said that i'm a world weary optimists. That's the way. I always describe myself. I would say. I'm an optimist. Because how could i talk about the news. How could i talk about the things. I believe in every day..
Verdict with Ted Cruz
"rufo" Discussed on Verdict with Ted Cruz
"We're taking this thing live. We're gonna go meet people in in real life. Were had headed out on the road to college campuses. We'll have an auditorium. We'll film at live. We will have hopefully some friendly questions some hostile questions and it's really up to the listeners. A verdict where we should go you know. Should we go to places that are away sees of truth and have people that that are used to hearing about life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Or do we go to places of communist indoctrination where where we're going behind the iron curtain and we might have to have a subversive effort to come in. I don't know we're asking you the reader. let us know where you think verdict should be filmed and we're going to have fun regardless we absolutely are. We could even head to the university of east berlin also known as berkeley in california. There are a lot of a lot of schools we could go to. And hopefully we'll be able to do a combination so you can apply to to hostess at your school that will be af dot org slash verdict. Get those applications and by august eighteenth. That is the deadline. And we're going to be looking forward to it and now before we see you live. We will answer your questions in the mail bag. All right this question completely out of left field but it's from our colleague on this show who is sitting right behind you real truth. Cactus and rights. What are some conservative arguments for environmental practices. We all hear the sun monster is going to kill us but as conservatives do we not also wished to conserve our planet. Where is the balance. I think that's a great question. And i think a lot of conservatives are really timid when it it comes to discussing environmental issues all of us breath all of us drink water all of us presumably and and you're drinking coffee or vodka. Whatever you're drinking both actually But there there you go but but you know water is that its base. Look all of us would like for our kids to be able to breathe and drink water. We'd like for our grandkids to be able to breathe and drink water Protecting the environment you know you look at a teddy roosevelt who was one of the first great conservationist and environmentalist. We have a responsibility to protect the environment. What does that mean that means fighting pollution. Fighting pollution is a good and noble role. It is an important governmental function win on a c. factories poor in a bunch of gunk into rivers or into the air that that that make people sick. All of that is legitimate. It's not worth today's environmentalist. Movement is today's environmentalist. Movement is focused on shutting down production. So it's not if the test is is the air cleaner and is the water cleaner. Then you can actually tell an an amazing story. Because as american ingenuity has moved forward we have cleaned the air and clean the water dramatically last year the year. Twenty twenty what country had the greatest reduction of carbon emissions of any country on earth. Answer the united states of america by far not even close and what caused that what caused that primarily was the shale revolution and the incredible abundance of natural gas. We have and we've seen a large scale shift from electricity. Production from cold and natural gas. Natural gas is a much cleaner way to produce electricity than coal and so we've seen not just carbon emissions going down but pollutants going down by dramatic numbers now. Here's the weird thing about environmentalists.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
"rufo" Discussed on Verdict with Ted Cruz
"They're being focused. They're being engaged in many cases for the first time in politics. And i don't think the institutional responses have been frankly very strong your see all of the media running cover you see the playing language games. You see them retreating from critical race theory. None of those strategies are going to hold because people know what's being taught to their kids people have a visceral. An intuitive understanding of what this ideology is trying to accomplish and we're seeing a critical race theory revolt all over this country that gives me an immense amount of. Oh and i think that look if brooklyn and berkeley wanna do critical race theory in their candidate trump schools. That's fine that's their right. But i think we're looking at somewhere between seventy and eighty percent of americans that we could rally into opposition on this issue and i think that's a starting point for incredible success so chris. If someone wants to learn more where where do we go. Where can someone go to learn more about what this is where it's being taught and what to do about it. Yeah i put together a critical race theory briefing book so if you just search google christopher rufo critical race theory briefing book or crt briefing book. I provided anything that you'll need to get started to engage zizi whether you're apparent whether your local legislator whether you care about this in the workplace so i have definitions. I have key concepts and quotations. I have stories about where it's being taught in. Schools also have suggestions for language that successful in winning on this issue as well as some model legislation. So that's where i'd recommend you go. You can always reach out to me. I'm happy to help what you In connection with other people that are working on this issue. I think it's. It's just a tremendously important thing. Right now and i urge everyone to get all certainly as chris We have got to get to the mailbag now. So i will not have you sit around and answer the difficult impossible questions from our listeners. I'm sure you could do it. 'cause you really have done such a with your writing over at city journal and your work on really making this issue into stark relief christopher rufo thank you for being on the show again before we get to the mail bag i am so pleased to announce that we are now finalising the dates for verdict. Live we are taking verdicts with ted cruz on the road in partnership with the young america's foundation we will be coming to.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
"rufo" Discussed on Verdict with Ted Cruz
"I and i think you know in a way you have to give these folks. Respect had a thirty year plan to get their ideas into the institutions and in many ways. They're just on the cost of success unless we stop them. So chris one very useful thing. I think you've laid out for folks listening or watching the pod if you're a parent if you have kids. Heidi and i are girls or ten and thirteen if you're looking at their curriculum in school. They're they're buzzwords that you want to be looking for things like white privilege or whiteness or white fragility which you're weird concepts things like anti-racism which i which i have to say by the way i have to step back and marvel at at the cleverness of the propaganda because anti-racism i think i absolutely i'm anti-racism. Racism is is horrible and evil and bigotry. And so of course. I'm against that. But but anti-racism is a code word. That doesn't actually mean being against racism. It means being racist Explicitly and discriminating number one against white kids discriminating number two viewing the system in a way that it is inherently biased and wanting to tear it down and you know we talked a minute ago about how all of this originated in marxism. What's interesting is it. Didn't just originate marxism the end point that this curriculum is designed to teach the kids to go to is marxism itself. It is designed to tear down capitalism and replace it with communism. Replace it with marxism with with government power. Although on racial lines is that is that a fair characterization. Yeah i think it is and one of the things that i've noticed in my research. You look at critical race theory and you look at their literature. You look at their academic work and they're always focused on pointing out problems. And i've always asked in the back of my mind. Well what do you want. What are you proposing alcee solution. Are you suggesting would solve these problems and in every case it is active discrimination. This idea that the that equality of outcomes must be achieved through government action and government force it skepticism about private property saying that private property actually is a form of whiteness that actually private property and white identity are inextricably linked and in order to reduce whiteness and white privilege. You have to actually change property arrangements. And then someone. Like abram kendy again who proposes a federal department of anti-racism it's unaccountable to voters unaccountable to congress on account to the executive. And what was that department do. Would have the power to veto nullify or abolish any law at any level of government and silence political speech that's not deemed anti-racist so when you put all of these disparate parts together you have again at the end of private property. You have redistribution of land and wealth along racial lines and then you have an omnipotent federal bureaucracy with the power to suppress speech and the power to invalidate law outside of the confines of our federal system. It starts looking a lot like a marxist twentieth century style state and you should keep in mind data. Say that that as you describe the federal department of anti-racism that that is terrifying and it's not just marxist it's profoundly anti-democratic to have some government bureaucrat. With the ability to set aside any law he or she doesn't like And to silence and censor speech but this nonsense is not just being taught in the schools of being taught in the schools is dangerous it i..
Verdict with Ted Cruz
"rufo" Discussed on Verdict with Ted Cruz
"Parents across the country have been storming school board meetings to demand an end to critical race theory in the classroom and prominent leftists have responded in one of two ways. Some of them have defended critical race. Theory is a good and important. Academic movement and others have denied that critical race theory exists at all and actually many prominent leftists have done both at the same time. Critical race theory doesn't exist but it's also terrific and wonderful and very important. Well here to help us break it down. We have one of the nation's top experts on critical race theory. This verdict with ted cruz. Welcome back to verdict with ted cruz. I'm michael knowles. And this week. I am joined not only by the senator himself but also by christopher for rufo who is senior fellow at the manhattan institute and who is largely responsible for many people around the country waking up to critical race theory and the associated leftist ideological movements that are poisoning the minds of young america. All right you understand my opinion of crt but i want to take a somewhat balanced perspective. Chris thank you so much for being here. It's going to be with you. So senator you and i were talking not so long ago about what. Crt was like back when you were a student in law school because it it did begin in the law schools but it didn't end in the law schools. Well that's right and harvard law. School is really where it Originated and and unfortunately it has metastasized and spread and chris has done a terrific job of chronicling where and when it has spread and how it's manifesting and so maybe one thing to start this conversation. Chr chris tell us does critical race. Theory exists because if i turn on msnbc. I see a lot of people screaming at me that there is no such thing. Yeah it definitely exists. And i've noticed a lot of folks on the left especially in places like msnbc equating critical race theory with with bigfoot with the loch monster it seems to be impossible to find only in the fevered imaginations of conservatives but a critical race theorists unfortunately for them left a very heavy paper trail. You look at the original academic writings in the late eighties and early nineties. All the way now to k. Through twelve schools where. I've meticulously documented. Not just people's experiences and people's opinions but actual pdf's videos documents and hard evidence of these really a atrocious ideas that are not just. It's just so give us an example of of what's being taught to kids in schools. Sure i mean in cupertino california. They forced third graders. Kids that are about eight years old to deconstruct their racial and sexual identities and then rank themselves..
The Dan Bongino Show
Christopher Rufo Successfully Challenges 'The Loaded Question'
"So the show has been focused today on the stunts, tricks scams. Media People are left this used to, you know, to get people to believe things that aren't true are in fact. True, you know, left this suit claim ignorance now, like my gosh, we didn't know anything about the lab lead theory. That's just ridiculous. You were just being idiots. Everyone else did. You just chose to not pay attention to a series of facts and data points. Conservatives put out early on saying, Hey, I think this thing came from a lab. You just chose to ignore it. That's on you. No apologies. Now too late. Millions of people have died. And we went over the tricks. They used the utopia. Fallacy. Can you can go listen to the audio Rewind on the website. You hear a mall? The alleged certainty. Fallacy the unbroken leg fallacy the appeal to common sense fallacy the appeal to authority fallacy on one of the authority figures they always appealed was all doctor found. She'd the bunk this theory that it came from a woman who he never debunked anything. Matter of fact, the clips I played in the last hour. I'm starting ask some real questions about his doctor Fauci hiding some himself. Fair question.