Over the last several months, white conservatives have launched a concerted effort to prohibit the teaching of critical race theory in public schools across the country. What once started off as incoherent rabble rousing has now grown into a full-blown culture war. Thanks to the likes of Fox News host Tucker Carlson and conservative activist Christopher Rufo, the propaganda and moral panic over critical race theory has spread like wildfire, mobilizing angry parents to protest and bombard local school board meetings and advocate for “patriotic” education.

As a result of this panicked frenzy, conservative lawmakers have either introduced or passed…

During a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Wednesday, Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, pushed back against criticism from Republican lawmakers that the military’s efforts to understand and reduce white extremism is “woke.”

Responding to several lines of questioning from Reps. Matt Gaetz and Michael Waltz about the teaching of critical race theory and white supremacy in the military, Milley gave an impromptu and impassioned speech about the importance of understanding the driving forces behind violent acts of extremism, much like the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6.

“I do think it’s important, actually, for…

Last month, New York City’s Pride organizer, Heritage of Pride, announced that it would be banning the presence of uniformed police officers from its events for the next three years. In response to this announcement, the New York Times Editorial Board declared the move a serious “misstep” and chastised the organization for its “politicized response,” as if this was the first time that politics and Pride had ever intersected. But Pride has always been political, especially when it comes to the police. In fact, Pride was born in opposition to the police and the unjust system they so ruthlessly enforced.

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Conservative lawmakers are spearheading a nationwide effort to whitewash American history and suppress freedom of speech in public schools and colleges across the country. Republicans have introduced bills in more than 15 states that would drastically limit discussions of race in the classroom and would effectively prohibit any mention of white privilege and white supremacy.

A majority of these bills specifically target topics like slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow laws, referring to them as divisive and inappropriate for children. …

During a recent discussion on his podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience,” former television personality Joe Rogan falsely claimed that straight white men are losing their right to speak freely. Despite being paid more than $100 million to share his opinions with millions of listeners around the world, the podcaster lamented that he is being silenced by “cancel culture” and the “woke” mob.

“You can never be woke enough. That’s the problem,” Rogan said in the middle of an interview with comedian Joe List. “It keeps going further and further and further down the line. And if you get to the…

For the past year, conservative outrage over “cancel culture” has been used as a cudgel to avoid criticism and fan the flames of the GOP’s manufactured culture wars. From the renaming of the Mr. Potato Head brand to the innocuous use of the term “birthing people,” conservatives have become experts at generating fake outrage to stoke fear among their base and incite moral panic.

Republican commentators and politicians have used this alarmism over “cancel culture” to drum up hysteria over non-issues and portray themselves as victims of the “woke” mob. This has become such an effective tool in the GOP’s…

In the midst of eating their own and pledging their undying loyalty to former President Donald Trump, Republicans are keeping themselves busy by waging a fake culture war on cancel culture and the “woke left.” Not a day goes by, as of late, where Fox News anchors and their congressional sycophants aren’t generating fake outrage by lying to their audience about toys and children’s books or parading around so-called victims of “cancel culture.” While this is not a new phenomenon, the language being used to describe it is.

Republicans are once again co-opting the language of progressives and people of…

Speaking at a conference for the Young America’s Foundation last week, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum falsely claimed that white colonizers built the United States from nothing, dismissing the influence of Native American culture.

In an attempt to whitewash American history and peddle the myth of American exceptionalism, Santorum insisted that Native Americans made no contributions to America’s cultural legacy. “We came here and created a blank slate. We birthed a nation from nothing,” Santorum said. “I mean, there was nothing here. I mean, yes we have Native Americans, but candidly there isn’t much Native American culture in American culture.”

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