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Christopher F. Rufo
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Christopher F. Rufo's personal blog at christopherrufo.com covers politics and culture. Since 2020, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Woke Elementary”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Linked as examples and primary sources on 'woke' school curricula, NPR's CEO and Harvard's president. The comments cite the posts as evidence without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Leading the fight against the left-wing ideological regime. Click to read Christopher F. Rufo,
Most-linked posts?
- Woke Elementary2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-02-03
What Hacker News says?
Here's one for you [0]. That's an infographic from the Smithsonian museum that attributed Enlightenment-age values, like individualism, family structure, and work ethic to "whiteness" and implied that it should be opposed. They removed it after pushback (search archive.org for more). That's the tip of the iceberg though. There's a whole industry of wrapping this narrative into struggle session-like training while ch…
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on “Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps from the Play Store”Submitted Woke Elementary as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSignal was the last place she worked. https://christopherrufo.com/p/signals-katherine-maher-proble...
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on “Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure”Submitted Revenge of the Gods as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThat’s what the underlined bits throughout are, including to Rufo’s own tweets. But here, primary: https://christopherrufo.com/p/the-zen-koans-of-npr > This week, I have been engaged in a campaign to expose NPR’s new CEO, Katherine Maher, and her anti-speech, anti-truth philosophy.
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on “Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure”There is plenty of proof to be found, from the lowering of standards in education which focuses on 'other ways of knowing' and 'lived experience', eschewing 'facts' for 'cultural knowledge', closing schools for high-performing students because these either have too many Asian and white students or not enough 'students of colour', the removal of standardised tests because these are supposedly 'racist', the implementa…
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on “In 1997, Wired Predicts Things That Could Go Wrong in the 21st Century (2021)”The author asks many questions - typically in conservative publications. > what happens when such crypto-communism is allowed to creep into our once hallowed institutions? What happens when Marxists become our central bankers? [1] > Is Claudine Gay a Plagiarist? (Harvard President) [2] [1] ref: https://www.karlstack.com/p/the-federal-reserve-goes-woke [2] ref: https://christopherrufo.com/p/is-claudine-gay-a-plagiari…
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on “Scholars asked Harvard President Claudine Gay for her data. She said no.”For those that don’y know what ctr is, an example of what critical race theory in practice looks like can be found here: https://christopherrufo.com/woke-elementary/ It’s scary how this racist neo-marxism is rapidly replacing liberal values in the US.
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on “The divide between political parties is smaller than we think (2020)”Probably something like this: https://christopherrufo.com/woke-elementary/ A lot of examples on that site.
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on “As Bad Information Spreads, Florida Schools Seek to Teach 'Digital Literacy'”Here is a recent example (with 277 pages of the curricula in question) of what is being pushed in some districts near me - https://christopherrufo.com/radical-gender-lessons-for-young... . The issues in Florida are almost identical since they're referencing the same curricula, and it's causing a backlash due to Disney coming out in support of it.
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on “Florida governor signs bill stripping Disney of self-governing authority”Ok, changed from https://christopherrufo.com/president-signs-executive-order-... .
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on “President Signs Executive Order Abolishing Critical Race Theory”Article with the actual Disney content (embedded PDF): http://christopherrufo.com/the-wokest-place-on-earth/
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on “The Wokest Place on Earth”