It looks like Greg Abbott's response to the protests at UT Austin is even more unpopular on the right than I thought. Apparently even Chris Rufo is mad at him. Rufo is quoted in this article as asking “How is such a policy different from DEI programs promising to prohibit ‘anti-black speech’? And why not include ‘anti-white speech,’ [lol -ed] which, as I have shown in my reporting, is institutionalized at University of Texas?”

The last few paragraphs of the article kind of lay it all out, though:

In December, the state Republican committee voted 39-32 to continue permitting members to meet with groups “known to espouse or tolerate antisemitism, pro-Nazi sympathies or Holocaust denial,” stripping a clause that would have banned such meetings from a statement of support for Israel, according to The Texas Tribune.

Half the board also voted not to keep any record of that vote.

In voting down a measure that would have restricted such meetings, members raised concerns about free speech. A ban on such meetings was reminiscent of “Marxist” tactics, members said.

Banning them “could put you on a slippery slope,” committee member Dan Tully told the Tribune.

In the aftermath of Wednesday’s arrests, a local journalist with the left-wing Texas Observer called out the apparent contradiction between the state’s broader response to antisemitic speech and its crackdown on the college demonstrations.

“I’ve seen no credible reporting of actual antisemitic incidents at the UT Austin protest,” Steven Monacelli wrote on X.

“What I can tell you is that I’ve reported on numerous neo-Nazi events and Greg Abbott never once tried to put any of them in jail.”

#Texas #Austin #GregAbbott #Rufo #antisemitism

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4620838-texas-governor-abbott-backlash-mass-arrest-ut-austin-pro-palestine-protest/

Chris #Rufo is an intellectual fraud. Rather than engaging substantially with #intersectionality and #CriticalRaceTheory, which would require him to actually understand them, he preens about figuring out that (gasp) scholars routinely use approximately the same language to describe the same highly technical and precise components of their research.

https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/open-season-on-scholars-of-race

So in chorus we sing out "Fuck you" to #Ackman and the #NYTimes, filthy #Rufo ally and symps.

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/01/exactly-one-proposition-2

All these takes seem to misdiagnose the mainstream media outlets as

"getting played"

when its plain as day they are actually captured megaphones for the same wealthy interests running these campaigns-- Ackman, Thiel, Koch, etc.

Can we grow the fuck up and stop giving mainstream media a fucking pass?

Theyre not the duped innocent.