Supplementary #MagazineUSTheNewYorkerPaigeWilliams "In September, 2020--four months after the murder of George Floyd, two months before the Presidential election, and a month into Williamson County Schools' use of Wit & Wisdom--Christopher Rufo, a conservative activist, appeared on Tucker Carlson's show, on Fox News, and called critical race theory 'an existential threat to the United States.' Rufo capitalized on the fact that, given C.R.T.'s academic provenance, few Americans had heard of the concept. He argued that liberal educators, under the bland banner of 'diversity,' were manipulating students into thinking of America not as a vibrant champion of democracy but as a shameful embodiment of white supremacy.
(As he framed things, there were no in-between positions.) Rufo later called C.R.T. 'the perfect villain'--a term that 'connotes hostile, academic, divisive, race-obsessed, poisonous, elitist, anti-American views.'
Rufo found a receptive ear in President Donald Trump, who was already ranting about 'The 1619 Project,' the collection of Times Magazine essays in which slavery is placed at the heart of the nation's founding. On Twitter, Trump had warned that the Department of Education would defund any school whose classroom taught material from the project. Trump conferred with Rufo and banned federal agencies from conducting 'un-American propaganda training sessions' involving 'critical race theory' or 'white privilege.' Trump said that Black Lives Matter protests were proliferating not because of anger over police abuses but because of 'decades of left-wing indoctrination in our schools.' Establishing a '1776 Commission,' he urged 'patriotic moms and dads' to demand that schools stop feeding children 'hateful lies about this country.' (The American Historical Association condemned the Administration's eventual '1776 Report,' highlighting its many inaccuracies and arguing that it attempted to airbrush history and 'elevate ignorance about the past to a civic virtue.')
Nearly nine hundred school districts nationwide were soon targeted by anti- C.R.T. campaigns, many of which adopted language that closely echoed Trump's order not to teach material that made others 'feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race or sex.' In some red states, the vague wording was enshrined as law. Republicans filed what became known as 'anti-C.R.T.' bills; they were seemingly cut and pasted from templates, with similarly phrased references to such terms as 'divisive concepts' and 'indoctrination.'
Williamson County Schools was uneventfully wrapping up its first term with Wit & Wisdom when, in early December, 2020, the American Legislative Exchange Council, which generates model legislation for right-leaning lawmakers, hosted a Webinar about 'reclaiming education and the American dream.' A representative of the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank, warned that elements of a 'Black Lives Matter curriculum' were 'now in our schools.' Rufo--correctly predicting that Joe Biden, then the President- elect, would abolish Trump's executive order--urged state legislators and governors to take up the fight.
Continuing the agitation wasn't just an act of fealty to Trump; it was cunning politics. The fear that C.R.T. would cause children to become fixated on race has resonated with enough voters to help tip important elections. Last November, Glenn Youngkin, a candidate for the governorship of Virginia, won an upset victory after repeatedly warning that the 'curriculum has gone haywire'--and promising to sign an executive order banning C.R.T. from schools. Jatia Wrighten, a political scientist at Virginia Commonwealth University, told the Washington Post that Youngkin had 'activated white women to vote in a very specific way that they feel like is protecting their children.'
Days after the alec Webinar on 'reclaiming education,' three women in Florida filed incorporation papers for Moms for Liberty, Inc., later declaring that their 'sole purpose' was to 'fight for parental rights' to choose what sort of education was best for their kids. One of the organization's founders, Tina Descovich--who had recently lost reëlection to the school board of Brevard County, Florida, after opposing pandemic safety protocols--soon appeared on Rush Limbaugh's show. Declaring plans to 'start with school boards and move on from there,' she said of like-minded parents, 'It sounds a little melodramatic, but there is evil working against us on a daily basis.' maga media--'Tucker Carlson Tonight,' Breitbart--showcased Moms for Liberty. Media Matters, the liberal watchdog, argued that influential right-wing media figures were essentially 'recruiting their eager audience' for the Moms' campaign.
Moms for Liberty, which is sometimes referred to as M4L or MFL, is so new that it is hard to parse, from public documents, what its leaders are getting paid. (The founders say that the chairs of local chapters are volunteers.) The group describes itself as a 'grassroots' organization, yet its instant absorption by the conservative mediasphere has led some critics to suspect it of being an Astroturf group--an operation secretly funded by moneyed interests. Moms for Liberty registered with the I.R.S. as the kind of social-welfare nonprofit that can accept unlimited dark money." https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/07/the-right-wing-mothers-fuelling-the-school-board-wars #AdvocacyUSManhattanInstituteForPolicyResearchChristopherRufo [Wikipedia] #NMUSFOXFNCTuckerCarlson #TheorySociologyCriticalRaceTheoryCRT #SlurWhiteSupremacy #PhenomnPolarisationDivisiveIssue #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated #PoliticsNationalismAmericanAnti #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #Cause1619Project #PhenomnWhitePrivilege #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #TauntIndoctrination #1776_Commission #1776_USDeclarationOfIndependence4thOfJuly #PoliticsPatriotism #OrgUSAmericanHistoricalAssociationAHA #AdvocacyUSAmericanLegislativeExchangeCouncilALEC #AdvocacyUSTheHeritageFoundation #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPGlennYoungkin #IRLScientistPoliticalJatiaWrighten #EDUUSVirginiaCommonwealthUniversity #ToponymAmericaNorthUSFloridaBrevardCounty #IRLShockJockRushLimbaugh #LiteralSchoolBoard #NMUSBreitbart #AdvocacyUSMediaMattersForAmericaMMFA #TheoryPerformativeActivismAstroturfing
#IRLAuthorCarolSwain https://bethepeoplenews.com/against-all-odds-episode-19-crt-crash-course/ i.e. #AdvocacyTurningPointTPUSABlexit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPcELdy_GUs #OtheringDiscriminationRacismStructuralSystemicInstitutional #IRLScholarAntonioGramsci
Context #TheoryPerformativeActivismAstroturfing
Context tweet in response to #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheObserverCaroleCadwalladr:
"The power of GB News lies less in what it broadcasts and more in what it clips. This is what Neil in an interview with the BBC's Amol Rajan calls the 'slice'n'dice' model - its content is designed to be clipped and shared, to go viral, to change the conversation, to bolster conservative narratives and to constantly and repeatedly perform 'anti-wokeness'. " https://keepingthereceipts.substack.com/p/andrew-neil-and-the-infocalypse #NMUKGBNewsAndrewNeil #NMUKBBCAmolRajan 'conservative narratives' i.e. #MetaphorWarfareCulture #AdvocacyAELegatumInstitutePhilippaStroud #EDUUKUniversityKingsCollegeLondonKCLMartinMoore #AdvocacyUKVoteLeave #IRLBusinesspersonPaulMarshall #WebsiteGuidoFawkes #WebsiteSpiked #MagazineUKTheSpectator #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraph #BrandTechSocialMediaXFKATwitter #OrgClassifPPUKConservativeParty #NewspaperUKTabloidTheDailyMail #BrandTechSocialMediaTelegramMessenger #BrandTechMetaFacebook #NMUKBBC #LiteralOppositionPoliticalParties #NMUKBBCNicholasWatt #PhenomnVirusCOVID19PandemicMitigationLockdown #PowerControlMicrofascismBullyingPileOn #NMUKGBNewsDanWootton #ConspiracyTheoryCOVID19PandemicDenialHoax #PhenomnPropagandaDisinformation #MetaphorDeceitLugenpresseFakeNews #NMUKITVChannel4 #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyRishiSunak #MetaphorWarfareCulture #TheoryPerformativeActivismAstroturfing #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphTomHarwood #TauntCatLady #IRLPoliticalStrategistDominicCummings #OrgUKElectoralCommission #IRLBusinesspersonArronBanks #AdvocacyUKLeaveEUAndyWigmore #ToponymRussia #IRLWhistleblowerChristopherWylie #BrandCambridgeAnalytica #PoliticsAuthoritarianism [Twitter] [Twitter] #OrgClassifPPUKLiberalDemocratPaulStrasburger #OrgClassifPPUKLabourBenBradshaw #OrgClassifPPUKLabourChrisBryant #OrgClassifPPUKGreenPartyCarolineLucas #OrgClassifPPUKScottishNationalPartySNPAlynSmith #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyPatienceWheatcroft #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyBorisJohnson #PhenomnNationalSecurity #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianLukeHarding #WebsiteSubstack
https://weaponizednarrative.asu.edu/library/he-predicted-2016-fake-news-crisis-now-hes-worried-about-information-apocalypse #SlurFourHorsemenOfTheInfocalypse [Wikipedia] #OrgUSTEDTalks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1WtNJmz3c0&t=11s
#IRLConsultantAvivOvadya https://aviv.me/
#TechArtificialIntelligenceAIGenerativeDeepfake
Supplementary #OrgUSProPublicaCoreyJohnson, #OrgUSProPublicaByardDuncan "Cambridge analysts ran the enhanced data through an algorithm to create psychological profiles that allowed for more incisive targeting. Potential voters were assigned one of five personality groups: risk-takers, carers, go-getters, individualists and supporters. Each got a tailored message. Risk-takers were viewed as highly neurotic and susceptible to ads that pricked their fears, Cambridge records show. Go-getters, on the other hand, would respond better to messages of optimism and the promise of a better future. ...
For the gun industry, a Democratic majority in the Senate and a Hillary Clinton presidency would have meant more legislative battles and a possible return to gun restrictions and loss of profits. Patrick O'Malley, the man who had been running the NSSF's largely successful electioneering effort for more than a decade, realized it needed to modernize, according to Cambridge emails.
So in April 2016, O'Malley, an NSSF contractor and political consultant, hired Cambridge Analytica. The written agreement called for Cambridge to mobilize supporters of the Second Amendment in the battleground states of Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Missouri, Colorado, Nevada, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire." [ProPublica] #OrgUSNationalShootingSportsFoundationNSSF #LegislationUS1791ConstAmdt2RightToBearArms #AdvocacyUSNationalRifleAssociationNRA #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyHillaryClinton #2016_ #ToponymAmericaNorthUSFlorida #ToponymAmericaNorthUSNorthCarolina #ToponymAmericaNorthUSVirginia #ToponymAmericaNorthUSMissouri #ToponymAmericaNorthUSColorado #ToponymAmericaNorthUSNevada #ToponymAmericaNorthUSWisconsin #ToponymAmericaNorthUSOhio #ToponymAmericaNorthUSPennsylvania #ToponymAmericaNorthUSNewHampshire #PhenomnMiningDataMicrotargeting
#OrgUSProPublica [ProPublica]
https://medium.com/@CrazyHomies/brexit-bots-sock-puppet-psyops-74209513d57d #PhenomnPropagandaDisinformationDezinformatsiya #PhenomnBrexit #PhenomnBrexitDexit [Wikipedia] #PhenomnBrexitFrexit
#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphEdwardMalnick "The advertising boycott of GB News shows Britain can no longer take basic democratic values for granted, the Culture Secretary has warned.
Writing for The Telegraph, Oliver Dowden said a 'vocal Twitter minority' was targeting the 'free and diverse media' and the 'right to dissent'.
The Cabinet minister pledged: 'We will not stand by and allow that to happen.'
In an escalation of the Government's so-called 'war on woke', Mr Dowden insisted the fledgling centre-Right broadcaster is right to seek to 'empower' viewers who feel that their 'concerns have been unheard'.
His intervention came after several companies withdrew advertising from GB News in its first week on air in the face of a 'stop funding hate' campaign.
Mr Dowden said: 'When he launched the channel, veteran broadcaster Andrew Neil vowed that GB News would not be 'an echo chamber for the metropolitan mindset', and that it would 'empower those who feel their concerns have been unheard'.
'Rightly so. A free media is one that has a diverse range of opinions and voices.'
Mr Dowden identified the protection of journalism and political opinions as 'the grounds of a functioning democracy', adding: 'Sadly, we can no longer take them for granted.
'Across the West, our values of tolerance and freedom of expression, for which previous generations have fought and died, increasingly risk being undermined by a small but vocal minority. For them, these are not absolute, but relative, concepts, ready to be bent to silence dissent from their world view.'
In an interview with The Telegraph, Frank Luntz, the veteran US pollster behind use of 'climate change' instead of 'global warming' said he fears 'capitalism' is becoming a 'bad word' in Britain, and said he is seeking an alternative to the word." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/06/19/exclusive-gb-news-boycott-shows-cant-take-democratic-values/
#NMUKGBNews
#OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyOliverDowden
#MetaphorSpatialEchoChamber
#IRLPollsterFrankLuntz [Wikipedia]
#PhenomnClimateChange
#PhenomnClimateChangeGlobalWarming
#PoliticsCapitalism
Supplementary #NMQAAlJazeeraTheListeningPost #2022_NoamChomskyTheFiveFiltersOfTheMassMediaMachine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M #BrandTechSocialMediaAeonMediaGroup https://aeon.co/videos/is-mass-media-still-manufacturing-consent-in-the-internet-age #IRLScholarNoamChomsky #IRLScholarEdwardHerman [Wikipedia] #1992_ManufacturingConsent #PoliticsAuthoritarianismAutocracy #CatchcryFreedomOfSpeechFreeSpeech #MetaphorVersusWestEast #MetaphorWarfareEnemyCommon #PhenomnMisdirectionScapegoating #MetaphorPhantasmSpectreBogeyman #PoliticsCommunism #PhenomnTerrorism #PhenomnImmigration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5ZAzDpa7yU&t=267s
'Admiral Benson'
#IRLActorLloydBridges cleans his ear canals skit.
reference to #OtheringHateAntisemitism #OtheringHateAntisemiticCanard i.e. "mind-controlling Zionist government" #PoliticsNationalismJewishZionism
Context "The adrenochrome conspiracy, a bizarre theory with antisemitic roots, posits that Satan-worshipping global and Hollywood elites run a massive child trafficking ring to drain their blood and harvest the chemical adrenochrome to stay young, and has been embraced by subscribers of the QAnon and Pizzagate conspiracy movements, including key people affiliated with the recent hit movie The Sound of Freedom." https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2023/07/15/the-adrenochrome-conspiracy-theory-pushed-by-sound-of-freedom-star-explained/ #2023_SoundOfFreedom:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt0kp4VW1cI&t=8s
#IRLActorJimCaviezel
#AdvocacyUSMediaMattersForAmericaMMFAJohnKnefel "Actor Jim Caviezel has spread a host of QAnon-related conspiracy theories while promoting his new anti-trafficking movie in right-wing media, from false claims about child kidnapping to truly bizarre accusations about Ukrainian biolabs and mass organ harvesting. ...
On the May 18 episode of Bannon's War Room, Caviezel openly embraced the QAnon conspiracy theory, which he has repeatedly supported in recent years. QAnon has changed and evolved over the course of several years, but at its core holds that a secret network of liberal elites inside and outside of government are involved in a worldwide pedophile ring. That false theory is the foundation of Caviezel's new film, which is based on the life of anti-trafficking activist Tim Ballard." https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/jim-caviezel-pushes-qanon-bizarre-media-blitz-new-anti-trafficking-movie
#IRLPoliticalStrategistSteveBannon
#PowerControlExploitationHumanTrafficking
#ConspiracyTheoryUkraineBioweapons https://www.npr.org/2022/03/25/1087910880/biological-weapons-far-right-russia-ukraine
#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianCharlesBramesco "Following that money leads back to a more unsavory network of astroturfed boosterism among the far-right fringe, a constellation of paranoids now attempting to spin a cause célèbre out of a movie with vaguely simpatico leanings. The uninitiated may not pick up on the red-yarn-and-corkboard subtext pinned onto a mostly straightforward extraction mission in South America, pretty much Taken with a faint whiff of something noxious in the air. Those tuned in to the eardrum-perforating frequency of QAnon, however, have heeded a clarion call that leads right to the multiplex. ...
And yet a coating of plausible deniability covers a film that takes care to be the most anodyne version of itself, all while giving those in the know just enough to latch onto. The traffickers are anonymous foreigners, mentioned as 'rebels' in an unspecified regional conflict with no connection to the alleged Clinton Crime Family, though a title card at the end points back to America as a hub for the '$150bn business' of exploitation. The religious dimension seldom extends beyond a god-fearing undertone, most perceptible in archetypes like the reformed sinner on the righteous path."
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jul/06/sound-of-freedom-movie-qanon-jim-caviezel
#ConspiracyTheoryClintonCrimeFamily
#TheoryPerformativeActivismAstroturfing
#PhenomnBoosterism
Supplementary #OtheringHateAntisemiticCanardInternationalJewry "QAnon evolved out of Pizzagate and includes many of the same basic characters and plotlines without the easily disprovable specifics. But QAnon also has its roots in much older antisemitic conspiracy theories. The idea of the all-powerful, world-ruling cabal comes straight out of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a fake document purporting to expose a Jewish plot to control the world that was used throughout the 20th century to justify antisemitism. Another QAnon canard - the idea that members of the cabal extract the chemical adrenochrome from the blood of their child victims and ingest it to extend their lives - is a modern remix of the age-old antisemitic blood libel." https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/25/qanon-conspiracy-theory-explained-trump-what-is #ConspiracyTheoryCabalQAnon #ConspiracyTheoryCabalPizzagate #LiteralSubstanceCompoundAdrenochromeC9H9NO3 / #ConspiracyTheoryCabalSaveTheChildren / #ConspiracyTheoryCabalElitesRedShoes / #OtheringHateAntisemiticCanardBloodLibel #1903_TheProtocolsOfTheEldersOfZion https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion And #MagazineUSTheAtlanticTerezaZelenkova [digital archives] And #OrgUSUnitedStatesHolocaustMemorialMuseum: "The International Jew reflects several widespread antisemitic prejudices. For example, it describes the world's Jewish population as 'being dispersed among the nations, but never merging themselves with nations and never losing a very distinctive identity.' The International Jew also asserts that 'The Jew is the world's enigma. Poor in his masses, he yet controls the world's finances....' It claims that every trade and industry had been 'infiltrated' by Jewish people, from magazines, to theater, to real estate. The International Jew also repeats the antisemitic stereotype that all Jewish people are naturally crafty and greedy." https://perspectives.ushmm.org/item/the-international-jew-the-worlds-foremost-problem #OtheringHateAntisemitismCaricatureSpider https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/soviet-anti-semitic-cartoons
#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianAnthonyCostello https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/27/gaps-sage-scientific-body-scientists-medical #IRLPhysicianPatrickVallance #IRLEpidemiologistChrisWhitty #IRLPhysicianJonathanVanTam #OrgUKNtlHealthServiceNHSStephenPowis #OrgUKGovPublicHealthEnglandPHESharonPeacock #OrgIntlUNWHOMariaZambon #IRLScientistMicrobiologistMeeraChand #EDUUKUniversityLondonSchoolOfHygieneAndTropicalMedicineLSHTMCharlotteWatts #OrgUKGovHomeOfficeJohnAston #EDUUKUniversityOfOxfordAngelaMcLean #OrgUKGovUKStatisticsAuthorityIanDiamond #EDUUKUniversityLondonSchoolOfHygieneAndTropicalMedicineLSHTMGrahamMedley #EDUUKUniversityImperialCollegeLondonNeilFerguson #EDUUKUniversityLondonSchoolOfHygieneAndTropicalMedicineLSHTMJohnEdmunds #EDUUKUniversityKingsCollegeLondonKCLJamesRubin #EDUUKUniversityKingsCollegeLondonKCLBrookeRogers #EDUUKUniversityOfOxfordPeterHorby #OrgUKWellcomeTrustJeremyFarrar #EDUUKUniversityOfEdinburghAndrewRambaut #OrgUKGovDptOfHealthAndSocialCareDHSCEmmaReed #EDUUKUniversityImperialCollegeLondonEdwardMullins #IRLPoliticalStrategistDominicCummings #AdvocacyUKVoteLeaveBenWarner https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/coronavirus-whos-who-on-secret-scientific-group-advising-uk-government-sage
#AdvocacyCACanadaFriendsOfScience #IRLDogmatistMichelleStirling, who presents the following video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXYyCWX2uYY summarises her contra argument to a a paper by #IRLScholarSethWynes #IRLScholarKimberlyNicholas, which reveals issues with Canadian secondary science curricula https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0218305 Significantly, Stirling's paper https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3428789 and video clip seek to #MetaphorSowingSeedsOfDoubt / #EpistemologyAgnotology about the certainty of scientific consensus that #PhenomnClimateChange poses severe risks to human and natural systems. And the 'Friends of Science' organisation is a classic example of #TheoryPerformativeActivismAstroturfing http://folksonomy.simonperkins.co.uk/?permalink=4341 #PhenomnRealityFalsifying
"One container ship puts out the pollution of 50 million cars; A large container ship emits the carbon dioxide (CO2) of 20,000 cars." #TheoryDragonsOfInactionPerceivedRiskFinancial
#TauntWoke appropriated because of it progressive symbolism for
#IdentityAmericanBlackAndAfrican.s - this time though serving as a challenge.
'Blexit' transformation and appropriation of
#PhenomnBrexit - serving to mean "black exit from
#OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticParty ".
#CampaignHashtagWalkAway [Wikipedia]
#OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOP #PhenomnPropagandaAgitprop / propaganda. #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump
Addendum the visual design i.e. font choice and general layout resemble that of Turning Point USA - especially, when considered in context with #AdvocacyTurningPointTPUSABlexit i.e. #TheoryPerformativeActivismAstroturfing ?