The media’s war on vocal opponents of Critical Race Theory is on. One of the leading voices nationally in the fight to educate people on the dangers of CRT has felt it firsthand over the last few months. The Washington Post recently ran a hit piece on him disguised as a standard profile piece over the weekend.
Reporters Laura Meckler and Josh Dawsey painted conservative writer and filmmaker Christopher Rufo as a propagandist. They claimed he made numerous false or misleading claims about what CRT is and the extent to how public school classrooms and official diversity training documents used by federal departments present it.
At least three versions of the story exist at online archive sites like this one, not merely due to minor tweaks made to the account. Instead, they made corrections after Rufo pushed back hard.
In a Twitter thread Sunday, Rufo documented a list of five things he said WaPo got wrong in their reporting:
Two of them – 1 and 3 – are arguably a matter of differing interpretations. Numbers 2, 4, and 5 are not.
In an update posted Monday, Rufo noted that his campaign to get the Post to correct their reporting had met with some success, although there were still some notable areas where they wouldn’t budge:
The more outspoken you become on an issue, the more you elevate your profile. But, of course, along with that comes more scrutiny and criticism. There is nothing inherently wrong with that. But as we’ve previously reported, the intent behind these stories is critical. There is no question the mainstream media has become so bothered by the anti-CRT movement success that they’ve taken to using predictable tried and true tactics against conservatives.
Such tactics include falsely proclaiming opponents are racists, alleging it’s an Astroturf campaign rather than one first started at the grassroots level, and smearing prominent voices as liars and Trump stooges.
These are, of course, attempts at shutuppery. But unfortunately for Rufo’s critics in the media and on the left, he isn’t letting any of this intimidate him, which is to his credit, because the best response to concerted efforts to silence conservative voices is to get even louder.
Learn more about Critical Race Theory by visiting LIF’s Critical Race Training in Education website here.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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