Tweet of the night:

[applegrove]

Link to tweet

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Why is the Koch network so dedicated to this cause? It is a prime example of how the network has built up an alliance between the three pillars of the right wing: the Republican Party, rich corporate elites, and conservative white and evangelical voters opposed to racial progress.

The CRT fight helps all three. Republicans get a manufactured controversy that motivates their base to keep them in power, and they get the financial support of the Kochs and their corporate friends. The Kochs and other radical capitalists get a false panic around the state of public education, which helps their ongoing campaign to privatize schools, and they gain allies who will push the economic agenda that keeps them at the top. The overwhelmingly white Republican base is rewarded with a story that is easier for them to accept than the true one—a story where they are both the heroes of American history and the true victims of the American present, oppressed by “political correctness.”

As my organization wrote in our expansive report, “Advancing White Supremacy,” the Koch network has purposefully exploited this relationship for years. The network has long-standing ties to white nationalist scholars and has used their research to drive policies that serve its economic goals at the expense of people of color, including efforts to resegregate our nation’s schools, dismantle voting rights, and expand the prison-industrial complex.

You can see this play out in how the Koch think tanks we studied propose “solving” the CRT problems. They propose solutions like deregulating teacher licensing and relaxing restrictions on which public schools parents can send their kids to, both long-standing goals of the organization. This dramatic mismatch between supposedly existential stakes on the one hand and technocratic fixes on the other exposes their true intentions. They are inciting outrages against racial justice, and then using that outrage as a Trojan horse for entrenching radical free market ideology in every institution possible

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[BoomaofBandM]

1. They are such a nasty family. They have done so much damage.

[stillcool]

2. I started reading Jane Mayer's book

"Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires", but couldn't do it. Loaded with information as it is with all the different billionaire PAC's and Foundations, I should probably make another attempt. But, it is so damn depressing.

[applegrove]

3. I know it. I stay away from the books I have on creeps unless it is balanced out by good people

somehow. At least that is how I roll these days.

[Delphinus]

8. Agreed.

That was one of the toughest books to read - I felt so hopeless when I was done.

[bahboo]

4. never seems to be any consequences for this shit...ever....

[crickets]

5. Grrr. K&R for visibility.

[Demovictory9]

6. kick

[uponit7771]

7. These people are evil fuckin forces man and they don't stop, fuck them and their darkness