On Tuesday, the Manhattan Institute’s Christopher Rufo unspooled another fantastic Twitter thread exposing how U.S. defense contractor Raytheon was polluting its employees with Critical Race Theory, including telling employees that they must view each other based on race. This massive exposé landed him on Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson Tonight, where he expounded his findings and noted that memes about the direction of wokeness had become prophetic.
After a segment about CRT being taught in schools, Tucker Carlson introduced Rufo by noting he’s “one of the only journalists in the country who’s taken a close look at what companies and schools are actually teaching during these struggle sessions.”
Carlson called out Raytheon’s internal training for what it truly was: “It's racism, teaching that some people are better than others based on the way they were born and that is immoral.” He added: “Raytheon states that white straight Christian men are top of the oppression hierarchy. Those white men, Raytheon said, must step aside for minorities though they have individually done nothing wrong.”
And upon introducing Rufo, Carson skewered Raytheon for not apologizing to “all the people of color that their weapons have killed over the years but instead, they’re attacking their own employees based on their skin color.”
Rufo wasted no time in drone striking the heart of Raytheon’s racist training and noting its similarities to socialism and communism:
They launch this really political indoctrination program teaching employees to judge each other on the basis of race, asking employees actually to identify one another on the basis of race during conversations. They provided specific rules for white employees how to speak to black employees. And they even said that employees should reject the principle of equality in favor equality of outcomes, which is a synonym for socialism, maybe communism.
“And it’s really astonishing because this is one of the largest corporations in the world, it manufactures key defense armaments, and yet it has been captured by this woke ideology that seems to be now the dominant force not only in education and in government but also in business,” he warned.
After Carlson scoffed that Raytheon’s training material was probably “all written by white men who are not stepping aside and giving their jobs to people of color,” Rufo explained how “absolutely hypocritical” it all was and how it was like Raytheon was paying into a “protection racket” from the “woke” “mafia”:
I think the best way to think about this, Tucker, is think of it as a protection racket similar to the mob, the mafia where you pay a small fee. In this case, you signal virtue, you hire the right consultants, you sign the right pledges to pledge to decolonize your bookshelf or to interrogate your unconscious bias. And then these companies hope they’ll be left alone, that the social media mob, that the politicians in office, that the Biden administration will keep that taxpayer money flowing because they are signaling the right beliefs.
“But it’s transparently absurd,” he exclaimed.
And that absurdity was apparent in how, as Rufo put it, a meme “has become reality.” “It’s gone from a meme. Tucker, there was a joke last year that Raytheon would put the rainbow flag on a drone strike, and now that meme, that joke has become a reality,” he reminded Carlson.
“Yeah. But you can feel good when your village gets vaporized. They’re really the worst people in the world. I can say that with some confidence,” Carlson chided as he wrapped up the segment.
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Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson Tonight
July 6, 2021
8:15:08 p.m. EasternTUCKER CARLSON: Chris Rufo is one of the only journalists in the country who’s taken a close look at what companies and schools are actually teaching during these struggle sessions. And he has discovered again and again that it's racist. It’s not reverse racism, it’s not a species racism, it's racism, teaching that some people are better than others based on the way they were born and that is immoral.
Today, Rufo reported that Raytheon, that’s one of the biggest defense contractors in the world, is teaching its employees to judge one another based on the color of their skin.
In internal training, Raytheon states that white straight Christian men are top of the oppression hierarchy. Those white men, Raytheon said, must step aside for minorities though they have individually done nothing wrong.
Hard to believe this can happen, and your tax dollars are paying for it.
Chris Rufo is a journalist and a filmmaker. He joins us now. So, Raytheon, I guess they haven't apologized to all the people of color that their weapons have killed over the years but instead, they’re attacking their own employees based on their skin color. Am I missing the gist or is that about right?
CHRISTOPHER RUFO: Yeah, that's exactly right. They launch this really political indoctrination program teaching employees to judge each other on the basis of race, asking employees actually to identify one another on the basis of race during conversations. They provided specific rules for white employees how to speak to black employees. And they even said that employees should reject the principle of equality in favor equality of outcomes, which is a synonym for socialism, maybe communism.
And it’s really astonishing because this is one of the largest corporations in the world, it manufactures key defense armaments, and yet it has been captured by this woke ideology that seems to be now the dominant force not only in education and in government but also in business. I'm exposing it and all Americans should be deeply concerned about what I found.
CARLSON: We’re always happy to talk to you. I’ll just be honest with you though, in your place, we tried to book the little girl – the Vietnamese girl – napalm girl, who in 1972 was napalmed by defense contractors to get her take on this. Is she happy that they’re woke have they sent her any money? I mean, for a defense contractor to talk like this – I assume it’s all written by white men who are not stepping aside and giving their jobs to people of color. Is that—I’m I getting warmer here?
RUFO: Yeah, that's right. I mean, it's absolutely hypocritical. You look across at a range of companies that have been exposed with the stuff.
I think the best way to think about this, Tucker, is think of it as a protection racket similar to the mob, the mafia where you pay a small fee. In this case, you signal virtue, you hire the right consultants, you sign the right pledges to pledge to decolonize your bookshelf or to interrogate your unconscious bias. And then these companies hope they’ll be left alone, that the social media mob, that the politicians in office, that the Biden administration will keep that taxpayer money flowing because they are signaling the right beliefs. But it’s transparently absurd.
It’s gone from a meme. Tucker, there was a joke last year that Raytheon would put the rainbow flag on a drone strike and now that meme, that joke has become a reality. I've shown the documents and it’s really to the point of absurd and if it wasn't so serious, everyone should be laughing.
CARLSON: Yeah. But you can feel good when your village gets vaporized. They’re really the worst people in the world. I can say that with some confidence.
Chris Rufo, great to see you tonight, thank you.
RUFO: Thank you.
