{"id":281394,"date":"2021-06-23T03:19:25","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T00:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/washington-post-tried-to-smear-me-for-criticizing-race-theory-and-failed\/"},"modified":"2021-06-23T03:19:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T00:19:25","slug":"washington-post-tried-to-smear-me-for-criticizing-race-theory-and-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/washington-post-tried-to-smear-me-for-criticizing-race-theory-and-failed\/","title":{"rendered":"#Washington Post tried to smear me for criticizing race theory and failed"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Washington Post tried to smear me for criticizing race theory and failed<\/strong>”
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The Washington Post attempted to smear me, the nation\u2019s most prominent opponent of critical race theory \u2014 and it backfired spectacularly.<\/p>\n

The fight over CRT has consumed American media<\/a>. Conservatives have rallied against the toxic neo-Marxist ideology that seeks to divide the country into the racial categories of oppressor and oppressed; liberals have defended it as a \u201clens\u201d for understanding vague buzzwords such as \u201csystemic racism\u201d and \u201cracial equity.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been on the cutting edge of this battle. My investigative reporting, including columns for this paper, has exposed CRT in education, government and the corporate world. I\u2019ve shed light on public schools forcing<\/a> 8-year-olds to deconstruct their racial identities, telling<\/a> white teachers they must undergo \u201cantiracist therapy\u201d and encouraging<\/a> white parents to advocate for \u201cwhite abolition.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

These stories have attracted millions of readers, helping spark a rebellion among parents in school districts across the country \u2014 and making me a target for the woke left.<\/p>\n

In recent months, outlets including The New York Times, The New Republic, MSNBC, CNN and The Atlantic have relentlessly attacked me. But the coup de gr\u00e2ce, they believed, would be a 3,000-word expos\u00e9 in The Washington Post. The paper dispatched two reporters, Laura Meckler and Josh Dawsey, and spent three weeks preparing a vicious hit piece against me, accusing me of a range of intellectual crimes.<\/p>\n

Only the Post\u2019s story rested on a bed of lies. Among other things, Meckler and Dawsey fabricated the timeline of events surrounding my involvement with former President Donald Trump\u2019s executive order on CRT; incorrectly claimed that a Cupertino, Calif., diversity lesson I exposed never happ<\/a>ened; and insisted that my reporting about the US Treasury Department\u2019s diversity programs was false.<\/p>\n

After the article was published, I went through it line-by-line and made a point-by-point rebuttal on social media and to The Washington Post\u2019s editors. Within 48 hours, the paper\u2019s story had collapsed.<\/p>\n

The paper admitted to fabricating the timeline of events, having originally claimed that a Fox News<\/a> appearance I made on Sept. 1 had \u201csoon\u201d been followed by a visit by me to the Trump White House and thereafter by an anti-CRT memo from Trump\u2019s budget chief (in fact, I didn\u2019t visit the White House until Oct. 30, long after Team Trump issued the memo and an anti-CRT executive order).<\/p>\n

Further, the paper retracted or added six full paragraphs to the story and reversed its accusation that I invented the Cupertino story. The training did, in fact, take place, the paper conceded.<\/p>\n

As for the assertion that I made false claims about the Treasury training, the paper insisted on the absurd point that the material \u2014 which told employees that \u201cvirtually all white people . . . contribute to racism\u201d \u2014 did not mean that \u201call white people are racist,\u201d as I had reported. <\/p>\n

This was a deep embarrassment for The Washington Post, which then attempted to hide behind vague \u201cclarifications\u201d and sent a vice president of communications to do damage control. But what the paper did was indefensible: It dispatched deeply partisan reporters to do a hatchet job on a fellow journalist, with no regard for the facts or probity.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the problem: I have a large social-media platform and can defend myself. But what about ordinary Americans who are smeared, slandered and degraded by hyper-partisan outlets like The Washington Post?<\/p>\n

The episode also shed light on the bizarre determination of the prestige press to play down just how radical and fundamentally un-American CRT is. The Washington Post story framed CRT as merely an attempt to push white Americans to \u201cconfront systemic racism and white privilege in America,\u201d to prompt a \u201creckoning with America\u2019s past and present sins.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yeah, right. Meanwhile, in the real world, CRT trainings involve re-enacting racial segregation, only this time in the name of progress, as happened in the King County Library System (Seattle). They claim that \u201call white people play a part in perpetuating systemic racism,\u201d as Buffalo students are taught. And they accuse the US education system of perpetuating \u201cspirit-murder\u201d against black kids.<\/p>\n

This is far more than a healthy reckoning. It\u2019s indoctrination in ahistorical nonsense. It\u2019s demonizing vast swaths of America over skin color. It\u2019s racism. Democracy does indeed die in darkness, as The Washington Post\u2019s motto proclaims. It\u2019s just that the paper itself helps spread much darkness.<\/p>\n

Christopher F. Rufo is a contributing editor of City Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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