How Wall Street Is Funding The Culture War

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.@realchrisrufo, the influencer leading the right’s charge against how public schools teach race and sexuality, is backed by billionaires

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How Wall Street Is Funding The Culture War
The leading right-wing pugilist against “critical race theory” is backed by Wall Street execs whose financial crisis crushed communities of color.
11:36 AM · Sep 13, 2022

https://www.levernews.com/how-wall-street-is-funding-the-culture-war/

Chris Rufo, the pugilistic pundit leading the right’s charge against how public schools teach race and sexuality, is backed by billionaires who profited handsomely from the 2008 financial crisis that threw 8.6 million people out of work, 7.8 million people out of their home, and drove thousands of excess suicides.

Rufo is a senior fellow and prominent spokesperson at the Manhattan Institute, a right-wing think tank that has fueled recent hysteria over critical race theory (CRT) and LGBTQ curricula in schools. While the Manhattan Institute doesn’t disclose its donors, the organization’s board is helmed by executives who are deeply invested in preserving the country’s entrenched economic inequality — and who come from a financial industry that has plundered massive wealth from communities of color.

The situation illustrates how corporate interests are quietly using their wealth to stoke hate and divide America over culture-war issues in order to divert people’s attention from more pressing matters — namely, the country’s grotesque wealth inequality and the near-total control Wall Street now exerts over everyone’s economic lives.

Since Fox News vaulted him to prominence in 2020, Rufo, who declined The Lever’s repeated interview requests, has made dozens of high-profile media appearances where he said things like “Critical race theory has become the default ideology of the federal bureaucracy” and that “Public school bureaucrats… are training children to experiment with sexual identities.”

These efforts have been bankrolled by powerful Wall Street executives — including a hedge fund vulture and so-called “Doomsday investor” whose family donated more than $1 million to the Manhattan Institute in 2020 alone.

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[FoxNewsSucks]

1. Incredibly, there are still Democrats who don't think we need to raise taxes on those pricks

and their greedy asshole families.

They need to be taxed into the same level of poverty as the people whose lives they are ruining.

[mathematic]

2. Yeah, they're funding the culture war for our side.

Why do people keep believing that big business supports the conservative side of the culture wars when they very clearly do not? Somebody go ask Tim Cook what he thinks about gay rights. Fucking lol.

[Nevilledog]

3. So you think Chris Rufo is a liberal?

You think the culture war is driven by the left? It's the left wanting to "ban" CRT? Promoting "Don't Say Gay" laws? Transphobic attacks? Attacks on Children's hospitals?

We say they support big business because they do.... Follow the money and their donations are going to conservatives.

I'm not sure where you're getting your "info" from.

[mathematic]

4. Buddy, Chris Rufo is a fucking nobody

He's not big business. He's not Wall Street. He's nobody.

Your script is 30 years out of date. Conservatives hate big businesses because they're woke.

[Nevilledog]

5. You are in the wrong place.

[Biophilic]

6. Nah, I think he must be drunk. So confused. /S

[crickets]

7. K&R for visibility.