Nico Perrino: Right-Wing Activist Christopher Rufo Became the Thing He Claims to Hate

Rufo has definitely slipped toward the Dark Side of late.

   As for the "Stop Woke" act--though this can't be said of Perrion or FIRE, it's funny how the academic left suddenly started caring about free speech and open inquiry...

   What that act and many similar acts aims at stopping is indoctrination. And that's good--and consistent with the First Amendment. They've gone about it the wrong way--though their not generally as bad as the academic left wants you to believe. Their argument is basically: You must permit us to continue the unbridled brainwashing students and professors because the new laws that attempt to prohibit us from doing so could, possibly, if interpreted as uncharitably as possible, prevent us from teaching about some ideas central to our ideology at all...

   Of course, if the academic left would stop the blatant abuse of universities, this would be an issue. They could easily stop the "STOP WOKE" (God how I hate cutesy names for legislation) act by eliminating the need for it. They are like criminals arguing that the police should not be able to hinder their crime spree in any respect because doing so might possibly interfere with their rights. 

   Nevertheless, it is important that we not become like the progressive left. And Rufo lost me to some extent when he basically agreed with the ridiculous leftist mantra that all education is political. To the extent that that's even an intelligible claim, it isn't true. To try to win the battle by adopting strategies that constitute losing the war...not a great idea.