Bonus Sample: Chris Rufo’s Fascist Long-Game

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

Spirituality, Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Florida governor Ron DeSantis appointed right-wing propagandist, Christopher Rufo, along with other conservative Christian education-activists, to the board of the tiny, progressive New College in Sarasota, FL this past January. They fired the president, installed prayer at the board meetings, forbade personal pronouns in faculty email signatures, and claimed DeSantis’s electoral victory gave them a constitutional mandate to make whatever changes they want. The invaders frame this hostile take-over as a test-case model to “recapture” universities across the state and the country. But who is Rufo really? He’s the guy behind the manufactured moral panic over Critical Race Theory that set conservative media, school boards and city council meetings ablaze with fear-mongering over “woke Marxism” in 2021. New College is the latest conquest in his explicit long-game to remake the fabric of America, one sadistic lie at a time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.0	Spirituality Patreon Bonus Sample.
0:32.0	I think of myself as an individual human being with my own capabilities.
0:36.0	And I would hope that we could both judge each other as individuals and come to common values on that basis.
0:42.0	Fair enough, I would argue though that the ability to say I don't see race,
0:48.0	I don't recognize our own whiteness is an extraordinarily white thing to be able to do.
0:52.0	It's an exercise of power and privilege.
0:54.0	You can ignore the label of whiteness and still be able to enjoy all the spoils of whiteness.
1:00.0	If I say I'm not black, I don't see race.
1:02.0	I still can't get the cab.
1:04.0	I still work harder for less money.
1:06.0	I still don't live as long.
1:08.0	I still get longer prison sentences.
1:10.0	I still am more likely to be executed if I'm convicted of a crime.
1:12.0	I'm still more likely to die of COVID.
1:14.0	I'm still more likely to get suspended in school.
1:17.0	I'm still less likely to get pain medication in a hospital.
1:21.0	The idea of saying that I don't see my whiteness, I don't recognize whiteness is something we can say.
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