Reviewing the new book by Christopher Rufo, architect of the right’s crusade against “critical race theory.”

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    The “revolution,” in Rufo’s telling, is comprised of—wait for it—diversity programs at colleges, Black Studies departments, protests against police brutality, and corporations that tweeted pro-BLM platitudes in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing. His evidence for dangerous revolutionary changes in our society consists of things like the appearance of the term “institutionalized racism” in the newspaper.

    Idk how anyone could make it though more than a couple pages of this junk.

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      It’s about catering to an audience that wants to be told things that already think are true. It’s pandering, but it’s also dangerous, because it serves to further entrench ideologies that have no qualms about committing arbitrary violence against anyone who doesn’t share their ideology; not too dissimilar to religious extremists eh?