Leftist false-flagger tries to take down Christopher Rufo — but there's a major problem with her narrative



Lauren Windsor of Robert Creamer's Democrat-aligned Democracy Partners has repeatedly attempted to kneecap prominent conservatives and Republicans, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin.

Windsor recently tried to take down Christopher Rufo, a senior Manhattan Institute fellow and New College of Florida board member whose success in combating critical race theory, DEI, and academic dishonesty has made him a popular bogeyman on the left.

Despite fellow travelers' apparent desperation to believe in Windsor's latest narrative, it has quickly unraveled.

In August 2015, hackers targeted a website for would-be adulterers, Ashley Madison, and released over 25 gigabytes of data. On Thursday, Politico reported that an email address belonging to North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) was among those registered on the website.

A spokesman for Robinson claimed that the Republican had not made an account on the site, which virtually anyone apparently could have done in his name.

In response to the hit piece, Windsor tweeted, "Are there other prominent conservatives on Ashley Madison? I may know of one."

The Democratic activist followed up with a message stating, "Email address belonging to conservative Chris Rufo found in Ashley Madison data dump."

'Leave my wife and children out of it, you disgusting hack.'

Windsor tried to make something of this supposed discovery, advancing the suggestion that "Rufo appears to have no qualms about attempting to fool around on the mother of his children."

She did, however, admit in subsequent messages that it is "possible that someone else registered his email to the site" and that at the time of the leaks, Rufo was unmarried.

When Windsor pressed Rufo for comment, the conservative apparently responded, "No, but I heard these guys did," along with a picture of the fake white supremacist rally Windsor helped stage with the Lincoln Project in 2021 to smear then-candidate Glenn Youngkin ahead of the Virginia gubernatorial election.

Extra to staging at least one false-flag event, Windsor — who serves as the executive director of the Democratic-aligned dark-money group American Family Voices — has spent time in recent years attempting to dox Project Veritas operatives and to take down others holding up Democrats' agenda.

For instance, in June, she tried in vain to provide Democrats with ammunition to take down Justice Alito, having posed as a conservative at an event in hopes of getting Justice Alito and his wife on tape saying something damning.

Rufo publicly called out Windsor, writing, "This is complete bull****, as you admit later in the threat. I have never used 'Ashley Madison.' If you want to attack me or my politics that's fine, but leave my wife and children out of it, you disgusting hack."

The Manhattan Institute fellow added in a subsequent message that Windsor's accusation was "verifiably false," stating:

This is verifiably false. I have never used this website and Lauren Windsor has provided zero evidence to the contrary. Moreover, her specific accusations are easily debunked. I was single in 2014, so the insinuation that I signed up for 'a website designed for married people seeking affairs' — or, even more grotesquely, that my son, whom I first met and then adopted years after this date, signed up for it using my credit card — is a total fabrication and a disgraceful slander against a child. Lauren Windsor has previously admitted to perpetrating the Youngkin Nazi hoax and this is an equally fake and partisan smear. A truly repulsive human being.

Rufo revealed Friday that his legal representatives at Dhillon Law Group contacted Windsor with a cease and desist letter, advising her to preserve evidence.

Krista Baughman, who runs Dhillon's First Amendment and defamation practice, noted, "It defies credulity that Mr. Rufo would register for a dating website marketed to people who are married in June 2014, when Mr. Rufo was an unmarried man," adding that Rufo met his wife in 2015, married her the following year, then legally adopted his son.

Rufo made clear he was contemplating suing Windsor.

Although Windsor has deleted one of her messages, specifically a quote tweet claiming that Rufo blamed his son, she has since amplified the suggestion by Steven Monacelli of the leftist blog Texas Observer that location data possibly supports her theory.

Harmeet K. Dhillon wrote, "Do NOT mess with our clients."

Dr. Jordan Peterson responded to the smear effort, writing, "Imagine that / Leftists tried to cancel @realchrisrufo / With lies / And stupid ill-thought through lies / Adding the sin of voluntary incompetence / To the sin of evil intent."

Seth Dillon, CEO of the Babylon Bee, noted that "it's a common tactic for leftists to sign conservatives up for porn sites and LGBTQ newsletters and other garbage like that as a way of trolling us."

"It isn't just annoying, though; it also gives them something to point to when data breaches happen later on. 'Oh look, we found your email on the gay dating site we signed you up for 2 years ago. Explain that!'" added Dillon.

It appears that some of Windsor's more trollish detractors have evidenced the ease with which a personal email can be used by strangers to sign up for websites, creating an OnlyFans page with her name and email.

When asked by Monacelli if the OnlyFans account belonged to her, Windsor replied, "There are plenty of people posting about signing my email up for sites."

Blaze News reached out to Rufo for comment but did not receive a response by deadline.

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NPR's new CEO outed as leftist race obsessive amidst calls to defund the 'polemical news outlet'



Uri Berliner is a Peabody Award-winning senior business editor who has worked at NPR for 25 years. Last week, he braved the ire of his peers and explained why NPR, long a leftist sinkhole for federal funds, has become an "openly polemical news outlet serving a niche audience."

Following Berliner's damning exposé, longtime critics of NPR ramped up their scrutiny of the media outfit, recognizing not only its untrustworthy nature but also the radicalism of its new CEO, Katherine Maher.

Amidst renewed calls by former President Donald Trump and others for NPR to be defunded, South African billionaire Elon Musk — among those prickled by Maher's racially charged remarks and slurs — called Maher "a crazy racist!"

Propaganda for the 'tote bag-carrying coastal elite'

Berliner pulled out all the stops in an April 9 opinion piece for the Free Press, slamming NPR for mindlessly advancing Democratic propaganda and altogether giving up on journalistic independence.

At the outset, Berliner, the son of an LGBT activist and a child of Holocaust victims, admitted to resembling the stereotypical NPR listener — "an EV-driving, Wordle-playing, tote bag-carrying coastal elite" — and recognizing that NPR has "always had a liberal bent."

He alleged that despite its historic bias, NPR once had an "open-minded, curious culture." It has since since shed its skin and became a brazen mouthpiece for the liberal political establishment in Washington, D.C., suggested the veteran editor.

Berliner noted, for example, that NPR worked ardently to "damage or topple Trump's presidency," in part by "hitch[ing] our wagon to Trump's most visible antagonist, Representative Adam Schiff" and amplifying the Russia collusion hoax.

When the Russia collusion narrative and the corresponding fictions that NPR helped spread were revealed to be false, Berliner indicated that the media outlet more or less pretended it never happened and moved on "with no mea culpas, no self-reflection," helping shatter trust in the media in the process.

Extra to helping kneecap a democratically elected president over blatant falsehoods manufactured by his political foes, Berliner noted that NPR also turned a blind eye to a Democratic scandal that could possibly have altered the course of the 2020 election had it been properly reported and not censored online —the Hunter Biden laptop story.

Berliner highlighted how in response to the New York Post's explosive story about the laptop, NPR's then-managing editor for news, Terence Samuel, said, "We don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don't want to waste the listeners' and readers' time on stories that are just pure distractions."

Again, when the facts ultimately revealed NPR to be in the wrong, the organization "didn't make the hard choice of transparency."

Berliner also blasted NPR for lying about the origins of COVID-19, "even declaring that the lab leak had been debunked by scientists. But that wasn't the case."

The chief catalyst

According to the NPR veteran, "independent journalism" at his company began to take a major nosedive after former CEO John Lansing took the reins in 2019. Lansing reportedly seized upon the death of George Floyd as cause to center race and identity in everything the company did.

"When it comes to identifying and ending systemic racism," Lansing allegedly noted in a company-wide article, "we can be agents of change."

"America's infestation with systemic racism was declared loud and clear: it was a given. Our mission was to change it," wrote Berliner.

In addition to transforming NPR into an identitarian activist organization, Lansing apparently helped eliminate all remaining "viewpoint diversity."

Berliner's article was not altogether hopeless. After diagnosing what was wrong with NPR, the business editor suggested that Katherine Maher, announced as the president and CEO of the company in January, might turn things around.

Maher formerly worked at the National Democratic Institute, which is primarily funded by George Soros' Open Society Foundations, took part in the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leader program, and served as CEO of Wikipedia's parent company, Wikimedia.

"Her first rule could be simple enough: don't tell people how to think," wrote Berliner.

From one radical CEO to another

Maher apparently figured that Berliner's proposed rule was worth breaking, suggesting in her April 11 response to his article that it's all right to criticize NPR — just not in a manner she doesn't like.

"Asking a question about whether we're living up to our mission should always be fair game: after all, journalism is nothing if not hard questions," Maher wrote in a response wherein she altogether avoided addressing Berliner by name. "Questioning whether our people are serving our mission with integrity, based on little more than the recognition of their identity, is profoundly disrespectful, hurtful, and demeaning."

Maher intimated further that Berliner was wrong to suggest NPR was radically partisan and devoid of viewpoint diversity, writing, "It is deeply simplistic to assert that the diversity of America can be reduced to any particular set of beliefs, and faulty reasoning to infer that identity is determinative of one's thoughts or political leanings."

While Maher might find it difficult to guess at the worldview(s) embraced by her new and old underlings underlings, it's not hard to infer where she stands on the issues in light of the following posts she made on X in recent years:

  • September 2020 — "Let's be clear here too: I am a white woman. I already got the leg up. ... My race is consistently an advantage."
  • May 2020 — "America is addicted to white supremacy and that's the real issue."
  • May 2020 — "I know that hysteric white woman voice. I was taught to do it. I've done it. It's a disturbing recognition. While I don’t recall ever using it to deliberately expose another person to immediate physical harm on my own cognizance, it's not impossible. That is whiteness."
  • May 2020 - "I mean, sure, looting is counterproductive. But it's hard to be mad about protests not prioritizing the private property of a system of oppression founded on treating people's ancestors as private property."
  • March 2019 — "When people turn their noses up at buses, that's also often implicit racism, by devaluing services that provide essential (and already often underresouced) connective links to minority communities."
  • March 2019 — "Climate change, income inequality, disproportionate representation, structural racism, and lax regulation will only become a more toxic brew in the years to come."

Manhattan Institute fellow Christopher Rufo shared an old post of Maher's to X Sunday, where she wrote, "Lots of jokes about leaving the US, and I get it. But as someone with cis white mobility privilege, I'm thinking I'm staying and investing in ridding ourselves of this spectre of tyranny."

Elon Musk responded, "This person is a crazy racist!"

@realchrisrufo This person is a crazy racist!
— (@)

Among the many now calling for NPR to be defunded is former President Donald Trump, who wrote Wednesday on Truth Social, "NO MORE FUNDING FOR NPR, A TOTAL SCAM!" reported CNN.

Trump underscored that NPR is a "LIBERAL DISINFORMATION MACHINE" that should not be awarded one additional dollar of government funds.

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Chris Rufo REVELS in NY mag writer's humiliation after magazine issues 'very embarrassing' correction



Manhattan Institute senior fellow Christopher Rufo celebrated a "win" on Twitter after New York magazine finally issued a correction on an Intelligencer article from April that misquoted him.

"Winning," Rufo wrote. "New York Magazine's @jonathanchait fabricated a quotation in an attempt to smear me, but I caught him red-handed and his editors had to retract the false statement and issue a correction. Very embarrassing for him.

\u201cWinning: New York Magazine's @jonathanchait fabricated a quotation in an attempt to smear me, but I caught him red-handed and his editors had to retract the false statement and issue a correction. Very embarrassing for him.\u201d
— Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f) 1657834203

"Funny how Chait 'misquoted' my remarks using completely different words and changing the entire meaning of my sentences in a way that just so happened to turn me into the villain in his narrative. It's one of our country's greatest ironies that Jonathan Chait's columns appear under the header 'Intelligencer,'" Rufo added.

\u201cIt's one of our country's greatest ironies that Jonathan Chait's columns appear under the header "Intelligencer."\u201d
— Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f) 1657834203

Jonathan Chait, the article's author, was incensed. Apparently, he doesn't consider misquoting a person and intentionally changing the meaning of his words to be all that big a deal. In fact, it was a "minor" mistake, not embarrassing at all, and by the way he has "standards."

"In fact, the misquote said virtually the same thing as the original. The misquote was minor (I will quote both in a follow-up) but we corrected because, unlike Rufo, we have standards.

\u201cIn fact, the misquote said virtually the same thing as the original. The misquote was minor (I will quote both in a follow-up) but we corrected because, unlike Rufo, we have standards.\u201d
— Jonathan Chait (@Jonathan Chait) 1657838373

Rufo was happy to help Chait understand the error of his ways.

"Regime journalism 101: 'Yes, I absolutely fabricated the quotation to push a pre-conceived narrative, but it's not a big deal. Trust me,'" Rufo tweeted, before posting a side-by-side comparison of his actual quote and Chait's misleading version, complete with the explaination:

"On the left is Chait's fabricated quote, which suggests that I 'instructed' conservatives to 'create an atmosphere' of school distrust. On the right is my real quote, which says that teachers unions and school bureaucracies have already created distrust. These are not the same."

\u201cOn the left is Chait's fabricated quote, which suggests that I "instructed" conservatives to "create an atmosphere" of school distrust. On the right is my real quote, which says that teachers unions and school bureaucracies have already created distrust.\n\nThese are not the same.\u201d
— Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f) 1657840213

Nope, these are clearly not the same.


\u201c@morenlh @realchrisrufo "You need to scare people into believing that there could be potholes in every road they drive on."\n\nis not the same as:\n\n"When people notice that they're driving over potholes all the time, remind them that the public works dept. should have filled them."\u201d
— Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f) 1657840213
\u201c@jonathanchait If they said the same thing, you wouldn't have had to retract it. Clearly they are communicating two very different points.\u201d
— Jonathan Chait (@Jonathan Chait) 1657838373
\u201c@jonathanchait Virtually the same thing? Sure. Then in which way(s) was the quote 'virtually' different?\u201d
— Jonathan Chait (@Jonathan Chait) 1657838373
\u201c@jonathanchait Lmao, these are completely different.\n\nThis is like saying "create" and "assume" are the same word.\u201d
— Jonathan Chait (@Jonathan Chait) 1657838373
\u201c@realchrisrufo No they are not the same or even close (if this quote on left, was only lifted from the text on the right). Where does the get the \u201che instructed his audience..? etc\u201d\u201d
— Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f) 1657840213
\u201c@jonathanchait \u201cOperate from a premise of\u201d vs. \u201ccreate an atmosphere of\u201d are quite different things. \n\nThe latter takes an active, primary role; the former simply assumes its presence, which may have arrived from multiple causes.\u201d
— Jonathan Chait (@Jonathan Chait) 1657838373
\u201c@realchrisrufo You know you've made it when they start making shit up about you.\u201d
— Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f) 1657840213
\u201c@jonathanchait If you have standards then why'd you misquote the man in the first place?\u201d
— Jonathan Chait (@Jonathan Chait) 1657838373

Why indeed.


\u201cIt's incredible that Chait boasts about his "standards" in the same tweet in which he admits to fabricating a quotation to push a pre-conceived narrative. This is why the public has zero trust in regime media: lies, hubris, and hypocrisy all wrapped into one.\u201d
— Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f) 1657842498

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VIDEO: Dumbfounded CNN anchor reverts to Democratic talking point over and over again when confronted with evidence of critical race theory in VA classrooms



CNN anchor Brianna Keilar was rendered inarticulate during a recent interview after being confronted with direct evidence regarding the implementation of critical race theory in Virginia classrooms, forced only to regurgitate the Democratic talking point that the teaching doesn't exist.

What happened?

Keilar was speaking with Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott, who serves as chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, on Monday when the exchange occurred.

The two were discussing Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin's successful bid for the governorship and whether his issues-focused campaign would be the "playbook" for Republican candidates in the 2022 midterms when Scott used Youngkin's opposition to critical race theory as an example of a winning strategy.

"Glenn Youngkin won his race because he talked about issues," Scott said, noting that Youngkin addressed what his opponent, former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, refused to acknowledge — that the theory was being promoted by the state's education department and being taught in its classrooms.

"Parents know their kids are being indoctrinated with critical race theory in Virginia, and the Democrats wanted to deny it," Scott explained.

That's when Keilar jumped in to say, "Well, it's not in the curriculum" — a claim she would repeat verbatim several more times over the next 30 seconds.

When confronted with direct evidence, all this CNN anchor can do is repeat the talking points her producer gave her \n\nPretty embarrassinghttps://twitter.com/therecount/status/1457754273949929472\u00a0\u2026

— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) 1636392490

Scott responded to Keilar's denial in amazement. He began reading from a report that detailed specific instances in which McAuliffe himself, when he was governor of Virginia, specifically implemented critical race theory and embraced race-based teaching in the commonwealth.

"In 2015, while Terry McAuliffe was governor, the Virginia Department of Education promoted incorporating a critical race theory lens in education. You can still find it on the Department of Education's website, it's still there," Scott read. "In 2019, a superintendent memo for the Virginia Department of Education promoted critical race theory and the idea of white fragility."

The anchor, apparently unable to offer any substantive retort, reverted time and time again to her refrain that critical race theory "is not in the curriculum" in Virginia.

"I looked at it yesterday! It's still there, Brianna," Scott shot back as Keilar shifted uncomfortably and tried to change the subject.

"Brianna, wait a minute. Let's all agree: They were trying to indoctrinate kids, Terry McAuliffe denied it, it's still on the website," the senator continued as the segment closed.

"This is happening," he added to silence from the CNN host.

What else?

MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace similarly argued last week that the rise of critical race theory in schools is merely Republican propaganda, even going so far as to say that the theory "isn't real," despite mounds of evidence to the contrary.

As conservative journalist and filmmaker Christopher Rufo pointed out in a Twitter thread recently, Virginia public education officials have endorsed in recent years the explicit use of critical race theory as an "important analytic tool" to "further spur developments in education."

"Right now, on its website, the Virginia Department of Education recommends 'Critical Race Theory in Education' as a 'best practice' and derives its definitions of 'racism,' 'white supremacy,' and 'education equity' explicitly from 'critical race theory,'" Rufo wrote late last month.

Right now, on its website, the Virginia Department of Education recommends "Critical Race Theory in Education" as a "best practice" and derives its definitions of "racism," "white supremacy," and "education equity" explicitly from "critical race theory."pic.twitter.com/QVSJVpju2A

— Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) 1635607788

Mark Levin TORCHES Joe Scarborough, MSNBC for denying CRT is taught in Virginia schools: 'A moron and a liar'



The mainstream media's dishonesty with Americans has been on full display with the governor's race in Virginia. To hear MSNBC's Joe Scarborough tell it, the issue of Critical Race Theory being taught in Virginia public schools is a total fabrication. On "LevinTV" this week, it took Mark Levin less than 30 seconds to expose Scarborough as the ultimate liar while unearthing Virginia's history of indoctrinating students in Critical Race Theory.

Mark shared a video clip from MSNBC's "Morning Joe" in which host Joe Scarborough claims Critical Race Theory is not taught in Virginia schools.

"I live in the state of Virginia. It's being taught in the state of Virginia. It's being taught in the state of New Jersey. It's being taught in virtually every state in the union, in virtually every classroom in the union," Mark responded. "How hard is it for MSNBC news to find some investigative reporters to dig this up? Why is it so difficult for these multi-billion dollar corporate media outlets to do it? Why? Because they're liars, that's why."

Mark then took a 30-second break to do his own digging. He came back with a Twitter thread from Christopher Rufo in which the Manhattan Institute senior fellow claims to "debunk this lie—and prove that McAuliffe himself was the first Virginia governor to promote CRT."

In 2015, then-Governor McAuliffe's Department of Education instructed Virginia public schools to "embrace critical race theory" in order to "re-engineer attitudes and belief systems." They explicitly endorse CRT\u2014he can't wiggle out of this one with word games.pic.twitter.com/aLV4LGYFZJ

— Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) 1635607149

Right now, on its website, the Virginia Department of Education recommends "Critical Race Theory in Education" as a "best practice" and derives its definitions of "racism," "white supremacy," and "education equity" explicitly from "critical race theory."pic.twitter.com/QVSJVpju2A

— Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) 1635607788

McAuliffe is playing a linguistic shell game to obfuscate about critical race theory. But the reality is that Virginia Department of Education promotes all of the *concepts* of critical race theory: "systemic racism," "white supremacy," "white privilege," "white fragility," etc.

— Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) 1635608117

I've included the full documentation on critical race theory in Virginia public schools here.https://christopherrufo.com/mcaullifes-crt-lie/\u00a0\u2026

— Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) 1635608145

"What a complete liar this guy is, a complete fraud," Mark said of Scarborough. "A moron and a liar."

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MSNBC reporter blames lies about critical race theory for Democratic flop in Virginia. But she's the one lying.



MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace argued Tuesday night that GOP propaganda and fake fomentation over the rise of critical race theory in schools is what led to a Republican rout of Democrats in Virginia's statewide elections.

"Critical race theory, which isn't real, turned the suburbs 15 points to the Trump insurrection endorsed Republican," Wallace said on the air while covering Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin's shock victory in Virginia's gubernatorial race.

As counting continued late into the night Tuesday, Youngkin maintained a healthy lead over Democratic candidate and former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe.

Republicans also appeared to take the races for lieutenant governor and attorney general in the state, which President Joe Biden won by more than 10 percentage points just one year ago.

During her show on MSNBC, a clearly rattled Wallace blasted Republican attacks on the educational implementation of critical race theory, an ideology that re-examines society through a racial lens and presumes that race is a constructed concept used primarily to exploit people of color.

The "Deadline: White House" host even tried to whitewash the theory by claiming it "isn't real" despite mounds of evidence to the contrary.

"Which isn't real"\n\nA reminder that the Virginia Department of Education website explicitly mentions Critical Race Theory as part of a best practice for establishing a curriculum: https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1454470598168510464\u00a0\u2026https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1455693642866298887\u00a0\u2026

— AG (@AGHamilton29) 1635901736

Critics on Twitter quickly charged Wallace with spreading misinformation, citing materials recently obtained by conservative journalist and filmmaker Christopher Rufo.

On Oct. 30, Rufo pointed out that under Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D), public education officials endorsed the explicit use of critical race theory as an "important analytic tool" to "further spur developments in education."

He also noted, "Right now, on its website, the Virginia Department of Education recommends 'Critical Race Theory in Education' as a 'best practice' and derives its definitions of 'racism,' 'white supremacy,' and 'education equity' explicitly from 'critical race theory.'"

Right now, on its website, the Virginia Department of Education recommends "Critical Race Theory in Education" as a "best practice" and derives its definitions of "racism," "white supremacy," and "education equity" explicitly from "critical race theory."pic.twitter.com/QVSJVpju2A

— Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) 1635607788

Radical progressive changes in schools in the state — including the teaching of critical race theory and the adoption of transgender-affirming policies — are believed to have played a large part in the GOP's Tuesday night victories.

Yet McAuliffe, like Wallace, suggested in the final days of his campaign that critical race theory is nothing more than a "racist dog whistle" used to misleadingly rile up Republican voters.

The former governor also claimed that the theory has "never been taught in Virginia," even though in 2015, his very own administration reportedly instructed public schools to embrace it.

AT&T reportedly offers critical race theory training program: 'White people, you are the problem'



AT&T — the world's largest telecommunications company — offers an employee training program that teaches premises such as "American racism is a uniquely white trait" and "white people, you are the problem," according to a new report. AT&T has disputed some of the claims in the report, and dismissed it as "misleading."

According to internal documents obtained by journalist Christopher F. Rufo, AT&T launched an initiative called "Listen Understand Act" last year that is "based on the core principles of critical race theory, including 'intersectionality,' 'systemic racism,' 'white privilege,' and 'white fragility.'"

A senior AT&T employee, who spoke to Rufo on the condition of anonymity, said managers at the company now face annual assessments on diversity issues, and there is "mandatory participation" in "race reeducation exercises." The source allegedly told Rufo that white employees are "expected to confess their complicity in 'white privilege' and 'systemic racism,' or they will be penalized in their performance reviews."

AT&T company instructs employees to study a resource claiming that the United States is a "racist society" and tell… https://t.co/IZTfe1HhtW

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) 1635452057.0

The initiative encourages employees to read a Chicago Tribune article written by Dahleen Glanton that says, "White people, you are the problem. Regardless of how much you say you detest racism, you are the sole reason it has flourished for centuries."

"American racism is a uniquely white trait," the article states. "Black people cannot be racist toward you. Racism, by definition, is 'prejudice, discrimination or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.' Black people cannot exude a sense of superiority that we have never experienced."

Glanton claims that white people "enjoy the opportunities and privileges that white supremacy" provides them.

The program urges employees to participate in the "21-Day Racial Equity Habit Challenge" that instructs people to "do one action to further your understanding of power, privilege, supremacy, oppression, and equity."

Eddie Moore, Jr, director of the Privilege Institute and the National White Privilege Conference, is credited with creating the "21-Day Racial Equity Habit Challenge." Moore recommends reading articles such as: "The Case for Reparations," The Weaponization of Whiteness in Schools," and "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack." The challenge suggests websites such as the Antiracism Center, the Transgender Training Institute, and National Center for Transgender Equality.

An AT&T spokesperson called the report "misleading," and told the New York Post that City Journal's report is "filled with misinformation and inaccuracies, including the ridiculous claim that we require employees to participate in 'race reeducation' exercises.'"

"This is blatantly untrue," the rep said. "We simply provide employees with resources they can use on a voluntary basis to facilitate conversations that are important to them, our customers and the communities we serve. Whether an employee uses these resources or not is up to them, and does not affect their annual performance rating. We have a long and proud history of valuing diversity, equality, and inclusion, and will continue to do so."

Whistleblower documents: Walmart's critical race theory training teaches employees that America is a 'white supremacy system'



Walmart has a critical race theory training program that teaches employees that America is a "white supremacy system," according to internal documents from a whistleblower. The training program also reportedly singles out white employees, claiming they are guilty of "white supremacy thinking" and "internalized racial superiority."

Starting in 2018, Walmart began a partnership with Racial Equity Institute — a self-described "alliance of trainers, organizers, and institutional leaders who have devoted ourselves to the work of creating racially equitable organizations and systems." REI is a "multiracial team of organizers and trainers who are committed to the work of anti-racism transformation."

REI offers racial equity training through a two-day workshop. The racial equity workshops cost $20,000 for corporations, $15,000 for an institution, and $12,000 for a community. "The virtual presentation is capped at a firm 35 participants to maximize engagement," REI states.

Journalist Christopher F. Rufo published documents provided to him by a whistleblower pertaining to the Racial Equity Institute training given to Walmart employees. The CRT training was reportedly administered to over 1,000 Walmart employees. The "anti-racist" program is purportedly mandatory for Walmart executives and recommended for hourly wage workers.

The document from Walmart's "Culture, Diversity, and Inclusion" office thanks employees for participating in a "powerful and thought provoking two-day training facilitated by experts from the Racial Equity Institute (REI)."

"The program begins with the claim that the United States is a 'white supremacy system,' designed by white Europeans 'for the purpose of assigning and maintaining white skin access to power and privilege,'" Rufo wrote in City Journal. "American history is presented as a long sequence of oppressions, from the 'construction of a white race' by colonists in 1680 to President Obama's stimulus legislation in 2009, 'another race neutral act that has disproportionately benefited white people.'"

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The training, which is dated October 2019, lists "characteristics of white supremacy culture" that include "worship of the written word," "individualism," "paternalism," "objectivity," "defensiveness," and "right to comfort."

Walmart's CRT training claims that white people are guilty of "internalized racial superiority," while minorities suffer from "internalized racial inferiority." Minorities are also constrained by "constructed racist oppression," "lowered expectations," and "very limited choices," according to the leaked internal documents.

The "anti-racism" program features a "ladder of empowerment for white people" that instructs white Walmart employees that ideas of "we're all the same" and "I am not the problem" are racist constructs. The CRT training tells white people to accept their "guilt and shame," and take on the belief that "white is not right." To climb the top of the anti-racist ladder, white people need to take "collective action" and achieve a "community of resistance."

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A Walmart spokesperson told Rufo that the company has "engaged REI for a number of training sessions since 2018" and has "found these sessions to be thought provoking and constructive."

In May, Rufo published whistleblower documents that claimed Disney asked employees to complete a "white privilege checklist," and training that says America was founded on "systemic racism." Disney disputed Rufo's reporting, claiming the accusations "deliberately distorted" the company's policies.

In August, Rufo shared leaked internal documents from Verizon exposing a "Conscious Inclusion & Anti-Racism" training module. The training includes topics such as "institutional racism," "microaggressions," "microinequity," and "intersectionality."

Verizon pushes leftist, anti-American agenda in social justice training for employees: Report



Multinational telecommunications conglomerate Verizon has internal programs that train employees on anti-American sentiments and "anti-racism" agendas, according to a new report.

Following the death of George Floyd in late May 2020, Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg delivered a speech where he announced that the company would commit $10 million to "aid organizations dedicated to equality and social justice."

Verizon launched a new "Race & Social Justice Action Toolkit" in June 2020, with "employee-generated resources to jumpstart your education" and "support partners who are on the frontlines of battling racial injustice."

Verizon then presented a "Race & Social Justice" initiative last year for employee training, which "has created an extensive race reeducation program based on the core tenets of critical race theory, including 'systemic racism,' 'white fragility,' and 'intersectionality,'" according to City Journal.

Journalist Christopher F. Rufo claims to have received internal Verizon documents from a whistleblower, which show corporate curriculum and speeches that spread a leftist agenda.

In the "Conscious Inclusion & Anti-Racism" training module, Rufo reports that Verizon diversity trainers educate employees about topics such as "institutional racism," "privilege," "microaggressions," "microinequity," "allyship," and "intersectionality." Employees are instructed to list their "race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, education, profession, and sexual orientation."

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Verizon's then-Global Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion officer Ramcess Jean-Louis, who now works at Pfizer, allegedly gave a presentation claiming that "weaponized White privilege" is a "danger" to black Americans, who are seen as "inferior." To prove his point, Jean-Louis included video of the Central Park dog walker incident involving Amy Cooper from May 2020.

Verizon Vice President David Hubbard interviewed Khalil Muhammad, who reportedly "argued that America is fundamentally racist and needs a 'new origin story,' replacing the narrative of 'American exceptionalism' with the narrative that America was founded on 'systems of racism' that remain at the root of our society."

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Adrian Burrell, a social justice activist, allegedly told Verizon employees that police budgets are "aimed towards hiring [police officers] with racist biases."

Burrell purportedly said governments "need to be aimed at bringing more resources to the community at a root level, and then you just won't need so many police. If you want to call that 'abolishing the police,' or if you want to call that 'defunding the police,' so be it."

TheBlaze reached out to Verizon for comment, but there was no response at the time of publication.

Colorado school district bans critical race theory after black father delivers rousing speech: 'We are not victims of America'



A Colorado black father delivered a stirring speech denouncing critical race theory during a school board meeting last week, which garnered a standing ovation from other parents. After the rousing monologue, the board members voted to ban critical race theory in the school district.

Several concerned parents gave their testimony about implementing critical race theory in classrooms, but Derrick Wilburn stole the show. Wilburn, who is a descendant of slaves, explained how installing critical theory into classrooms does not combat racism, but fans "the flames of what little embers are left."

"I am a direct descendant of the North American slave trade," Wilburn explained. "Both my parents are black. All four of my grandparents are black, all eight of my great grandparents, and all 16 of my great greats. On my mother's side, my ancestors were enslaved in Alabama. On my father's side, we were enslaved in Texas."

"I'm not oppressed and I'm not a victim," Wilburn, who is the founder and executive director of the Rocky Mountain Black Conservatives, added.

He added that his three children "are not oppressed, either, though they are victims."

"I taught my children they are victims of three things: Their own ignorance, their own laziness, and their own poor decision making. That is all," Wilburn stated.

"We are not victims of America," Wilbur said in the viral video. "We are not victims of some unseen 190-year-old force that kind of floats around in the ether."

"Putting critical theory into our classrooms is taking our nation in the wrong direction," Wilburn declared. "Racism in America would by and large be dead today if it were not for certain people and institutions keeping it on life support. Sadly, very sadly, one of those institutions is the American education system."

"Putting critical race theory in classrooms is not combating racism. It's fanning the flames of what little embers are left," Wilburn concluded. "I encourage you to support this resolution. Let racism die the death it deserves."

Shortly after Wilburn's galvanizing speech, the Colorado Springs School District 49 school board voted to ban critical race theory in classrooms.

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Board president John Graham, secretary Rick Van Wieren, and director Ivy Liu all voted to ban critical race theory.

The trio of school administrators gave a summary of the ban:

The driving force behind CRT and antiracism is the acceptance of a worldview that encompasses specific notions about history, philosophy, sociology, and public policy. By its own terms, CRT/antiracism excludes individuals who merely advocate for neutral principles of the Constitution, or who deny or question the extent to which white supremacy shapes our institutions.

Public Education, properly designed, includes age-appropriate exposure to events, philosophies, and structures which comprise the American experience. Clearly, this may and should include instruction of the facts and related literature regarding racism and inequality in America. However, such exposure should not purport to deliberately undermine student/family values, religious beliefs, or principles. Further, every student, regardless of status, has a unique life story. Thus, while instructors and administrators may recognize and/or believe in particular doctrines in the areas of faith, civil rights, economics, international affairs, sociology, or politics, it never should be the role of public educators to endorse or proselytize on behalf of a specific perspective in any of these areas. Certainly, CRT/antiracism or related euphemistic surrogates should not be an element of D49's curricula or teacher training.

The board members who voted to prohibit critical race theory told Fox News, "We are grateful for the outpouring of support from our community and others over this issue, but it is only one of many issues school districts face at this point, and having settled it, we would like to move on to the greater task at hand of catching up our students. After two years in a row of disruptive Covid impacts, we want to focus on getting our kids back on track socially, emotionally, mentally, and academically."