{"id":142599,"date":"2022-05-17T22:32:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T02:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/?p=142599"},"modified":"2022-05-17T22:35:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T02:35:10","slug":"christopher-rufo-how-to-defeat-woke-school-boards-and-woke-corporations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/christopher-rufo-how-to-defeat-woke-school-boards-and-woke-corporations","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Rufo: how to defeat woke school boards and woke corporations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Christopher Rufo, a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, is an implacable foe of public schools and corporations trying to indoctrinate our children in critical race theory and radical gender ideology. And he has come up with a formula on how to defeat these woke entities: uncover the truth, widely disseminate it via the media, and then have the right entities\u2014parent groups or governments\u2014act on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In regard to his successes in fighting the teaching of critical race (CRT) theory\u2014which holds, among other things, that America is and always has been a racist country, that all white people are guilty of either overt or hidden racism, and that structural racism has infected every institution in America\u2014in our public schools, Rufo told the Daily Caller<\/a> on May 9, 2022:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt really is a story of how information travels. What [happened] with CRT is really, I think, a beautiful example of \u2026 how investigative reporting can connect with mass media and then transform into grassroots activism.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Investigate to uncover the truth, spread the truth via the mass media, and then have grassroot groups act on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rufo then went into detail:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI did a series of reports on CRT in the federal government, then in K-12 schools, and then in Fortune 100 companies. I was able to get this information \u2026 first \u2026 replicating at a rapid rate on Twitter, then on to delivering hundreds of millions of media impressions on Fox News to the broadcast audience.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

His work was then picked up by \u201cthis organic grassroots network of parents \u2026 who were fed up with this, who were able to use my information, use my research, and use, in many cases, my language and vocabulary, and then start taking it to their local school boards, their local school council meetings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, Rufo\u2019s work played a large role in getting Republican Glenn Youngkin, who ran on a platform opposing CRT and had strong bi-partisan parent support as a result, elected governor of blue Virginia this past November. \u201cIt\u2019s just a story of how valuable, relevant, new information can drive political and social change,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rufo uses the same strategy in regard to fighting woke corporations pushing radical ideologies on our children, except this time he focuses on getting the government<\/em> to act. As he told the Daily Caller<\/a> on May 3, 2022:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat I try to do is take my investigative reporting and connect it with political power. You have to first generate stories and media and narrative to explain to people exactly what\u2019s happening. And then you have to actually enforce it through the democratic process with legislative activity.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Investigate to uncover the truth, widely disseminate it via the media, and then get the government to act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rufo successfully used this strategy in the State of Florida\u2019s battle with the woke Disney Corporation, which was opposing a new law that prohibited public schools from indoctrinating young children in radical LGBT ideology. First, Rufo uncovered several videos of Disney executives bragging how they were trying to impose a \u201cnot-so-secret gay agenda\u201d on children and how they were going to dramatically increase the number of LGBT characters in Disney productions. Second, he widely disseminated the videos via social and mass media. Third, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the Republican-dominated Florida Legislature responded to the public anger over the videos and Disney\u2019s opposition to the anti-grooming law by revoking Disney\u2019s special self-governing and taxing district in central Florida. The message from Florida was clear: go woke, go broke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rufo declared in regard to the victory over Disney:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve created now this model where, just recently, The Wall Street Journal<\/em> reported that CEOs around the country are asking each other, \u2018How do we prevent ourselves from becoming the next Disney?\u2019\u2026\u201cWe put a price on woke capital. We\u2019re enforcing it. We\u2019re going to keep pressing and keep fighting and keep delivering consequences for companies that transgress out values and this is how we\u2019re going to win this fight.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

So there you have. Woke school districts and woke corporations are trying to indoctrinate our children in radical ideologies around race and sex\/sexual orientation. And Christopher Rufo has come up with a strategy to defeat them: uncover the truth about what schools and corporations are doing, disseminate that truth widely via social and mass media, and get concerned parents and governments to make the woke entities pay. Such a strategy helped propel Republican Glenn Youngkin to the governorship in Virginia and helped to defeat Disney\u2019s desire to groom children in Florida. Let\u2019s hope that Rufo\u2019s strategy racks up more wins in the future so we can better protect our children from the wiles of woke schools and corporations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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