{"id":570349,"date":"2021-06-22T12:37:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T16:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=570349"},"modified":"2021-06-22T12:37:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T16:37:18","slug":"washington-post-issues-clarifications-to-story-trying-to-discredit-christopher-rufo-and-critical-race-theory-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-post-issues-clarifications-to-story-trying-to-discredit-christopher-rufo-and-critical-race-theory-critics\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post Issues \u2018Clarifications\u2019 To Story Trying To Discredit Christopher Rufo And Critical Race Theory Critics"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwashington-post-issues-clarifications-to-story-trying-to-discredit-christopher-rufo-and-critical-race-theory-critics%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=570349&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-175646326-1.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>The Washington Post had to make some major changes to a story attempting to discredit journalist Christopher Rufo, who has led the cause against Critical Race Theory (CRT) in schools, organizations, and the government.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the Post published an article titled, \u201cRepublicans, spurred by an unlikely figure, see political promise in critical race theory,\u201d attempting to paint Rufo\u2019s reporting as questionable, claiming his characterizations of trainings and seminars did not align with the facts. The Post article was published following a similarly biased and inaccurate hit piece from NBC News on Rufo. The Post even used the same tweet from Rufo to malign his motives in exposing CRT.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the Post published its own piece on Rufo, a \u201cclarification\u201d appeared below the article detailing two errors in the original report:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"8\">\n<p><em>This report has been changed to clarify the sequence of events that followed Rufo\u2019s appearance on Fox News last summer. In addition, the story adds a clarification from the Cupertino superintendent that a lesson was presented once before it was canceled.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The original article claimed Rufo\u2019s appearance on Fox News last summer made it seem like Rufo was invited to the White house within a day or two of then-President Donald Trump seeing him on TV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe next day, Trump demanded action and, Rufo was soon in the White House for a meeting. Two days later, his budget chief issued a memo laying the groundwork for the federal government to cancel all diversity trainings. An executive order followed,\u201d the Post originally reported.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, as the Post corrected, Rufo didn\u2019t attend a White House meeting until months after his Fox News interview.<\/p>\n<p>On Twitter, Rufo commented that the change amounted to the Post admitting it \u201cfabricated the timeline of events surrounding my involvement in President Trump\u2019s executive order.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"14.237288135593\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">WINNING: The Washington Post\u2019s hitpiece against me has collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>They have admitted to fabricating a timeline, retracted or added six full paragraphs, reversed a key claim, and failed to produce evidence of a falsified quotation.<\/p>\n<p>Democracy dies when the media lies. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gfKdpy4sal\">pic.twitter.com\/gfKdpy4sal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1407151635214700545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Post\u2019s original story also claimed that a lesson Rufo has pointed to as evidence for his CRT criticism didn\u2019t actually happen. The lesson, which took place at a school in Cupertino, California, had students to select \u201csocial identities\u201d that included their race, ethnicity, gender, class, etc. The lesson identified which of these traits were part of the \u201cdominant culture\u201d and had children note which attributes were associated with power and privilege. A slide about the lesson was sent to parents ahead of time.<\/p>\n<p>The Post claimed, quoting the president of the Cupertino Union School Board, that the lesson was never given to students and was canceled after parents complained.<\/p>\n<p>The Post\u2019s updated reporting notes that the lesson <em>was<\/em> taught one before being canceled. This resulted in the Post deleting two paragraphs and adding an additional four to correct the article. Rufo on Twitter said this reversed \u201ctheir reporting on a key Cupertino diversity seminar, which they had falsely claimed did not occur. This reversal vindicates my reporting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rufo added on Twitter Post editor Mike Semel \u201cadmitted to me via email that the newspaper does not have a recording or transcript of a key quotation that they falsified. They claimed the reporter has \u2018notes,\u2019 but cannot provide evidence to support their original claim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rufo also said Semel \u201cclaimed in an email that \u2018virtually all White people contribute to racism\u2019 does not mean \u2018all white people are racist.\u2019 This is an absurd position that only an ideologue could believe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rufo\u2019s last comment goes to the heart of the remaining Post article, which quibbles over semantics and framing while claiming Rufo was providing \u201cquestionable evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In one example, Rufo described intersectionality as \u201ca hard left academic theory that reduces people to a network of racial, gender and sexual orientation identities and intersect in complex ways and determine whether you are an oppressor or oppressed\u201d when discussing an FBI workshop.<\/p>\n<p>The Post claimed the FBI\u2019s flier \u201cmade none of those points.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt spoke about how various identities \u2018combine and multiply to result in unique forms of discrimination,\u2019\u201d the Post wrote.<\/p>\n<p>As anyone can see, Rufo\u2019s description of intersectionality aligns perfectly with what the flier said. It is only the Post claiming those descriptions are different.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocracy dies when the media lies,\u201d Rufo concluded in his tweet.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post had to make some major changes to a story attempting to discredit journalist Christopher Rufo, who has led the cause against Critical Race Theory (CRT) in schools, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280959,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-175646326-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Washington Post Issues \u2018Clarifications\u2019 To Story Trying To Discredit Christopher Rufo And Critical Race Theory Critics","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-175646326-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Washington Post Issues \u2018Clarifications\u2019 To Story Trying To Discredit Christopher Rufo And Critical Race Theory Critics","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}