America's Cultural Revolution Quotes

“In 1981, the New York Times… portrayed the Weathermen as entitled, narcissistic, delusional, and irrelevant…”
― Christopher F. Rufo, America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything

“The critical race theorists pretend to reveal a deeper understanding of racism in the United States, but by reducing the complex phenomenon of inequality to a single causal variable—racism—their theory is dangerously incomplete. Their policy of “anti-racism”—the destruction of middle-class norms and the construction of a racial patronage machine—would deepen racial divisions, not transcend them. Even worse, it would undermine the very institutions that are essential to addressing inequality in America.27”
― Christopher F. Rufo, America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything

“learn how to “challenge racist, bigoted, discriminatory, imperialist/colonial beliefs” and critique “white supremacy, racism and other forms of power and oppression.” Teachers are then encouraged to drive their pupils to participate in “social movements that struggle for social justice” and “build new possibilities for a post-racist, post-systemic racism society.”28 R. Tolteka Cuauhtin, the original cochair of the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum, developed much of the material regarding early American history. In his book Rethinking Ethnic Studies, cited in the state’s official reference guide, Cuauhtin argues that the United States was founded on a “Eurocentric, white supremacist (racist, anti-Black, anti-Indigenous), capitalist (classist), patriarchal (sexist and misogynistic), heteropatriarchal (homophobic), and anthropocentric paradigm brought from Europe.”
― Christopher F. Rufo, America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything

“It is racism that pulled that trigger. Racism. And if anybody needs to be indicted and imprisoned, it’s the reincarnation of racism himself, Richard Nixon.”
― Christopher F. Rufo, America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything

“…the true object of the new Marxism was not the pursuit of truth, but the pursuit of revolution.”
― Christopher F. Rufo, America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything

“As Cuauhtin tells it, white Christians committed “theocide” against indigenous spirituality.32 Those deities must be resurrected and restored to their rightful place in the social justice cosmology. It is, in a philosophical sense, a revenge of the gods.”
― Christopher F. Rufo, America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything

“In pursuit of this goal, the state curriculum encouraged teachers to lead their students in a series of indigenous songs, chants, and affirmations, including the “In Lak Ech Affirmation,” which appealed directly to the Aztec gods. Students clapped and chanted to the deity Tezkatlipoka—whom the Aztecs traditionally worshipped with human sacrifice and cannibalism—asking him for the power to become “warriors” for “social justice.” As the chant came to a climax, students performed a supplication for “liberation, transformation, [and] decolonization,” after which they asked the gods for the power of “critical consciousness.”30”
― Christopher F. Rufo, America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything

“In pursuit of this goal, the state curriculum encouraged teachers to lead their students in a series of indigenous songs, chants, and affirmations, including the “In Lak Ech Affirmation,” which appealed directly to the Aztec gods. Students clapped and chanted to the deity Tezkatlipoka—whom the Aztecs traditionally worshipped with human sacrifice and cannibalism—asking him for the power to become “warriors” for “social justice.” As the chant came to a climax, students performed a supplication for “liberation, transformation, [and] decolonization,” after which they asked the gods for the power of “critical consciousness.”
― Christopher F. Rufo, America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything

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― Christopher F. Rufo, America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything

“He understands intuitively that appeals to a new system of governance based on “diversity, equity, and inclusion” are a pretense for establishing a political order that is hostile to his values, even if he does not yet possess the vocabulary to pierce through the shell of euphemism and describe its essence.”
― Christopher F. Rufo, America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything

“{D]iversity, equity, and inclusion' represents a new mode of institutional governance. Diversity is the new system of racial standing, equity is the new method of power transfer, inclusion is the new method of enforcement. All of this could be presented to institutional leadership in a language that appears to be soft, benign, tolerant, and open-minded — something that, combined with the threat of accusation, elite administrators were culturally incapable of resisting.”
― Christopher F. Rufo, America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything

“The revolution, which seeks to connect ideology to bureaucratic power and to manipulate behavior through the guise of expertise, is ultimately not democratic.”
― Christopher F. Rufo, America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything

“The critical race theorists and their allies have turned resentment into a governing principle. But this also a trap: resentment is a tool for obtaining power, not of wielding it successfully.”
― Christopher F. Rufo, America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything

“The only solution, he believed, was the Great Refusal: the complete disintegration of the existing society, beginning with a revolt in the universities and the ghettos, then dissolving “the system’s hypocritical morality and ‘values’” through the relentless application of his “critical theory of society,”10 a philosophy described by Marcuse scholar Douglas Kellner as “Western Marxism,” “neo-Marxism,” or “critical Marxism.”
― Christopher F. Rufo, America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything