{"id":28428,"date":"2020-09-16T18:29:26","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T22:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=28428"},"modified":"2020-09-16T18:29:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T22:29:26","slug":"did-the-cdc-just-defy-trumps-executive-order-banning-critical-race-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=28428","title":{"rendered":"Did the CDC just defy Trump&#8217;s Executive Order banning critical race theory??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"navbar\" class=\"navbar\" data-v-ed6da9fa=\"\">\n<nav class=\"navigation animated fadeInDown\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<div class=\"navpart main-nav animated fadeIn\">\n<div class=\"menu-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"main-content\" data-v-ed6da9fa=\"\">\n<div id=\"post_5f5fa880b301be2dc3359f69\" class=\"page post post-detail\" data-v-2f3658f6=\"\" data-v-ed6da9fa=\"\">\n<div class=\"inner\" data-v-2f3658f6=\"\">\n<div class=\"view\" data-v-2f3658f6=\"\">\n<div id=\"sticky-matcher-0001\" class=\"main\" data-v-2f3658f6=\"\">\n<div class=\"header\" data-v-2f3658f6=\"\">\n<section class=\"headline\" data-v-2f3658f6=\"\">\n<div class=\"partial post-headline\" data-v-c2ac9ac2=\"\" data-v-2f3658f6=\"\">\n<h1 class=\"tpm-heading post-title\" data-v-c2ac9ac2=\"\">BREAKING: CDC defies Trump&#8217;s executive order, moves forward with critical race theory indoctrination<\/h1>\n<p>Mia Cathell<br \/>\nThe Post Millennial<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28532\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-16-at-6.03.29-PM-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-16-at-6.03.29-PM-1.png 650w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-16-at-6.03.29-PM-1-300x152.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"body\" data-v-2f3658f6=\"\">\n<div class=\"content\" data-v-2f3658f6=\"\">\n<div class=\"reader-container\" data-v-2f3658f6=\"\">\n<section class=\"article\" data-v-2f3658f6=\"\">\n<div class=\"partial html-content article-content\" data-v-9e83dbcc=\"\" data-v-2f3658f6=\"\">\n<article id=\"bFtKT9iyUwenkbd6zKxycL\" class=\"html\" data-v-9e83dbcc=\"\">The Center for Disease Control and Prevention is reportedly moving forward with critical race theory-inspired trainings in violation of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/trump-orders-end-to-un-american-critical-race-training-of-federal-employees\">President Donald Trump&#8217;s executive cease and desist order<\/a>\u00a0that abolishes social justice indoctrination in the federal government.<\/p>\n<div id=\"pa-container-0\" class=\"pa-global-class pa-pl-5031 pa-pl-multiInsert\">\n<div id=\"pa-unit-0\" class=\"pa-unit-global pa-pl-5031\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"pa-unit-1\" class=\"pa-unit-global pa-pl-5031\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-7\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=tpostmillennial&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-7&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1305576816803938304&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fthepostmillennial.com%2Fcdc-to-conduct-crt-inspired-trainings-against-trumps-executive-order&amp;siteScreenName=TPostMillennial&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=219d021%3A1598982042171&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1305576816803938304\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The national public health institute, a United States federal agency that operates under the Department of Health and Human Services, decided to ignore the president&#8217;s call to cut off taxpayer-funded racial bias conditioning of federal employees that the Trump administration alleges &#8220;seeks to undercut our core values as Americans and drive division within our workforce.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Christopher Rufo released\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/christopherrufo.com\/cdc-violates-presidential-order-with-critical-race-theory-training-program\/\">leaked documents<\/a>\u00a0that outline the CDC&#8217;s plan to &#8220;examine the mechanisms of systemic racism&#8221; and address &#8220;White supremacist ideology.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 13-week series is titled &#8220;Naming, Measuring, and Addressing the Impacts of Racism on the Health and Well-Being of the Nation and the World.&#8221; A presentation will be conducted by Camara Phyllis Jones, former president of the American Public Health Association.<\/p>\n<p>The first three &#8220;Naming Racism&#8221; sessions are focused on &#8220;racism, sexism, and other systems of structured inequality&#8221; and teach CDC employees to &#8220;address institutionalized racism&#8221; in order to &#8220;really set things right in the garden&#8221; of a purportedly racist nation, not &#8220;the land of opportunity&#8221; to &#8220;those who have always seen this country&#8221; as intended by the Founding Fathers.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-8\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=tpostmillennial&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-8&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1305576819270144000&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fthepostmillennial.com%2Fcdc-to-conduct-crt-inspired-trainings-against-trumps-executive-order&amp;siteScreenName=TPostMillennial&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=219d021%3A1598982042171&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1305576819270144000\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In the sixth through ninth sessions set throughout October, the CDC claims that &#8220;racism is a public health crisis&#8221; and that &#8220;systemic racism&#8221; leads to &#8220;police killings of unarmed Black and Brown men and women&#8221; and &#8220;the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities of color.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then in sessions 10 and 11, the trainers will instruct CDC employees to &#8220;target&#8221; and destroy individualism,&#8221; the &#8220;myth of meritocracy,&#8221; the &#8220;myth of American exceptionalism,&#8221; and &#8220;White supremacist ideology&#8221; based on textbook critical race theory.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-9\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=tpostmillennial&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-9&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1305577391863918592&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fthepostmillennial.com%2Fcdc-to-conduct-crt-inspired-trainings-against-trumps-executive-order&amp;siteScreenName=TPostMillennial&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=219d021%3A1598982042171&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1305577391863918592\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The final &#8220;Organizing and strategizing to act&#8221; sessions concluding in December provide a guide on how to become activists, encouraging staffers to join an &#8220;Anti-Racism Collaborative with eight Collective Action Teams&#8221; focused on &#8220;communications,&#8221; publishing scientific &#8220;anti-racist&#8221; work, and influencing &#8220;policy and legislation.&#8221; Historical perspective will be presumably based on\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em>&#8216;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2019\/08\/14\/magazine\/1619-america-slavery.html\">1619 Project<\/a>\u00a0with the intent to hire historians to staff city councils, state legislatures, and Congress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought maybe they would wisely cancel this training series. Instead we got a message this morning confirming&#8230;The pressure to participate is palpable and if you don&#8217;t you will have to explain why you aren&#8217;t a racist,&#8221; Rufo&#8217;s unnamed whistleblower expressed outrage.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-10\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=tpostmillennial&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-10&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1305577795108569089&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fthepostmillennial.com%2Fcdc-to-conduct-crt-inspired-trainings-against-trumps-executive-order&amp;siteScreenName=TPostMillennial&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=219d021%3A1598982042171&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1305577795108569089\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;We are in the midst of a pandemic and the CDC is prioritizing a critical race theory training program that is in direct violation of a presidential order,&#8221; Rufo tweeted, calling on CDC Director Robert Redfield to &#8220;immediately terminate this program\u2014and focus on COVID-19, where CDC has been disastrous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rufo then rallied his followers to stand behind him, also issuing a warning to every federal department in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you violate the president&#8217;s order on critical race theory, I will find you, expose you, and shut you down,&#8221; the reporter fired on Twitter.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-11\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=tpostmillennial&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-11&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1305578177989754887&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fthepostmillennial.com%2Fcdc-to-conduct-crt-inspired-trainings-against-trumps-executive-order&amp;siteScreenName=TPostMillennial&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=219d021%3A1598982042171&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1305578177989754887\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Rufo&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/christopherrufo.com\/summary-of-critical-race-theory-investigations\/\">critical race theory investigations<\/a>\u00a0have exposed the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/christopherrufo.com\/the-treasury-departments-difficult-conversations-about-race-training\/\">Treasury Department<\/a>\u00a0for telling its employees that \u201cvirtually all White people contribute to racism,&#8221; the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/christopherrufo.com\/national-credit-union-administrations-training-on-white-supremacy-and-systemic-racism\/\">National Credit Union Administration<\/a>\u00a0for conducting a session for 8,900 employees that argued that America was \u201cbuilt on the blacks of people who were enslaved,&#8221; the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/christopherrufo.com\/national-nuclear-laboratory-training-on-white-privilege-and-white-male-culture\/\">Sandia National Labs<\/a>\u00a0for holding a three-day reeducation camp for white males, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1296470618259456003\">Argonne National Laboratories<\/a>\u00a0for commanding white lab employees to admit that they atone for the \u201cpain and anguish inflicted upon Black people,&#8221; the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/christopherrufo.com\/department-of-homeland-security-training-on-microinequities\/\">Department of Homeland Security<\/a>\u00a0for hosting a training on \u201cmicroaggressions, microinequities, and microassaults,&#8221; and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1299379197253541888\">Federal Bureau of Investigation\u2019s Office of Diversity and Inclusion<\/a> for hosting weekly \u201cIntersectionality Workshops.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The mainstream media has covered the leftist propaganda as &#8220;sensitivity training,&#8221; while ignoring documented evidence of racially-segregated training sessions, the revival of the race essentialism, and subjecting employees to ritualistic self-denouncement.<\/p>\n<p>Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley has since argued that now is the time for &#8220;Congress to ban federal dollars from being spent on critical race theory or any other divisive, race-based propaganda.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will fight to include a ban on any spending bill Congress passes,&#8221; the Republican senator tweeted.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-12\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=tpostmillennial&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-12&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1305557977647255557&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fthepostmillennial.com%2Fcdc-to-conduct-crt-inspired-trainings-against-trumps-executive-order&amp;siteScreenName=TPostMillennial&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=219d021%3A1598982042171&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1305557977647255557\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m with you,&#8221; Rufo supported Hawley, adding the crossed swords emoji as a symbol of allegiance.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-13\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=tpostmillennial&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-13&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1305570473263030273&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fthepostmillennial.com%2Fcdc-to-conduct-crt-inspired-trainings-against-trumps-executive-order&amp;siteScreenName=TPostMillennial&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=219d021%3A1598982042171&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1305570473263030273\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"commercial\">\n<div class=\"inner nobg\">\n<div id=\"k5ySoqnuDLvSpVVsbgPcjV\" class=\"publicity content lazyload\" data-ads-type=\"content\" data-ads-code=\"post-content|post-m-content\" data-ads-category=\"news\">\n<div class=\"script\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"loading tpm-animated flashing\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This comes after Michael Caputo, the assistant secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, told his Facebook live audience on Sunday that left-wing hit squads are training for insurrection, accusing CDC scientists of \u201csedition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/09\/14\/us\/caputo-virus.html?fbclid=IwAR0bReJpmLRnqg77O6TrdNHOUrwKlAPF_tNtOku0o7S2PISIbpgkpJShp7o\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that the top communications official for public health affairs claimed that the CDC is harboring a \u201cresistance unit\u201d determined to undermine the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of this month, 50-plus groups formed a progressive coalition and met on Zoom to organise a post-Election Day seize if the Democratic ticket fails to win by a landslide.<\/p>\n<p>Fight Back Table\u2014an initiative launched after the 2016 presidential election\u2014calls the effort: \u201cDemocracy Defense Nerve Center.\u201d\u00a0<em>The Daily Beast<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/the-left-secretly-preps-for-violence-after-election-day?fbclid=IwAR0bReJpmLRnqg77O6TrdNHOUrwKlAPF_tNtOku0o7S2PISIbpgkpJShp7o\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that over the course of two hours, participants charted out anti-disinformation tactics launched under a multi-state communications arm, a training program for nonviolent civil disobedience, and the underpinnings of what one official described as \u201cmass public unrest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rose Brooks, co-founder of the Transition Integrity Project, has laid out her vision in a 22-page document, titled \u201cPreventing a Disrupted Presidential Election and Transition,&#8221; to identify &#8220;the most serious risks to our democracy might be the best way to avert a November disaster.&#8221; Brooks\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/2020\/09\/03\/trump-stay-in-office\/?arc404=true\">summarized<\/a>\u00a0four simulation exercises in\u00a0<em>The Washington Pos<\/em>t: a clear Biden win, a narrow Biden win, a murky result, and a Trump Electoral College win with popular vote loss. The war games were played out with 67 prominent public officials and academics role-playing on seven teams: the Trump campaign, the Biden campaign, Republican elected officials, Democratic elected officials, career federal government employees, the media, and the public.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/cdc-to-conduct-crt-inspired-trainings-against-trumps-executive-order\/\">https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/cdc-to-conduct-crt-inspired-trainings-against-trumps-executive-order\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}