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Some things don't change real fast. Others may change slowly, then real fast. The players behind these headlines seem familiar. But I don't remember learning much about the detailed contemporaneous events behind the China trade issue. How about you? China trade is in the news again, of course.
Critical Race Theory is a current leftist battle front. The proponents of CRT control a lot of territory. CBD posted a rant on Thursday to remind us that grassroots action is the way conservatives change things. A Chinese-American mom in Loudon, County, VA who survived Maoist China took on the school board in the county with the highest median income in the country, a hotbed of CRT activism among the government set. In Fayetteville, Arkansas, parents have created a model resource in the fight against their "extremely corrupt, woke" school district, and have begun to organize. The school board has a five year equity competency plan. Five year plan. Sounds Non-Marxist, right?
Speaking of resources, Christopher Rufo has put out a Briefing Book that should be of use to opponents of CRT and other forms of wokeness. Cracks me up that he advises people to tell stories (like about the little kids forced by teachers to rank themselves by privilege). Borrowing "lived experiences" from CRT, except for the "must be in line with Theory" part.
Recently, academics and activists have been playing word games around the term "Critical Race Theory", often denying that it has any roots in Marxism. A favorite new strategy of those pushing CRT is to claim that opponents of CRT "don't even know what it is". Often by changing definitions on the fly. Rufo's briefing book includes quotes from CRT academics. But if you want to bowl them over with jargon, you can always turn to New Discourses. Just have some resources handy in case of an interview.
Name one mainline institution that the woke Left does not now control--and warp. The media? The campuses? Silicon Valley? Professional sports? The corporate boardroom? Foundations? The K-12 educational establishment? The military hierarchy? The administrative state? The FBI top echelon?
The Left absorbed them all. But this time around it really believes that "by any means necessary" is no mere slogan. Instead, it is a model of how to disrupt or destroy 233 years of American customs, traditions, and values.
Woke revolutionaries are not panhandlers, street people, or Grateful Dead groupies. They are not even a few ragtag, nutty, and murderous Symbionese Liberation Army terrorists fighting against "the Man."
They are "the Man."
Our 21st-century revolutionaries are multibillionaires in flip-flops, tie-dye T-shirts, and nose rings, but with the absolute power and wish to censor how half the country communicates--or cancel them entirely.
They don't flock to campus free-speech areas; they are the campus administrators who ban free speech.
They don't picket outside the Pentagon; they are inside the Pentagon. . . .
They don't chant "eat the rich"; they are the rich who eat at Napa Valley's French Laundry.
They don't protest "uptight" values, because they are more intolerant and puritanical than any Victorian.