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#2I mean, maybe he can be credited with modern criticism of critical race theory, but conservatives have been complaining about it for decades. The law and economics movement in part gained traction among conservative legal scholars opposing general critical theory.
Here's an article from City Journal published in 1995 complaining about critical race theory: https://www.city-journal.org/html/law-school-humbug-11925.ht...
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#3Maybe this is a window into my own politics, but I don't see anything wrong with what this guy did. He saw something happening in society that he disagreed with, but was at first too nebulous to pin down. He was able to pull it together conceptually under one umbrella and give a name to it, and build support to push back against it. Welcome to how the world works. What is the problem, exactly?
You can disagree with his politics and think that telling third-graders to separate into groups by race and then estimate their own racial privilege is something your state-run education system should be doing. I don't mean to debate that. But surely most people would agree that Ben Rufo is free to organize thought and political action against such things, if he wishes, and that he's not being intellectually dishonest by doing so, as the article seems to subtly imply.
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#4I mean, maybe he can be credited with modern criticism of critical race theory, but conservatives have been complaining about it for decades. The law and economics movement in part gained traction among conservative legal scholars opposing general critical theory. Here's an article from City Journal published in 1995 complaining about critical race theory: https://www.city-journal.org/html/law-school-humbug-11925.ht.…
Came to the comments to nitpick about the same line. I guess the rest of the article better explains what he can be credited with. My main takeaway is: having Trump ban CRT from federal institutions, after hearing Rufo appear on Fox News
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#5Maybe this is a window into my own politics, but I don't see anything wrong with what this guy did. He saw something happening in society that he disagreed with, but was at first too nebulous to pin down. He was able to pull it together conceptually under one umbrella and give a name to it, and build support to push back against it. Welcome to how the world works. What is the problem, exactly? You can disagree with h…
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