Christopher Rufo
Appearances
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2139 - SHOCKING Tapes: Department of Education Pushes SEX WORK FOR CHILDREN
There are, you know, each of these equity centers received an $8 million grant from the Biden-Harris administration. And when you look at their organizational charts, they essentially support, you know, a dozen or two dozen left-wing race and gender activists who are in charge of advising thousands of public school districts each of these centers.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2139 - SHOCKING Tapes: Department of Education Pushes SEX WORK FOR CHILDREN
And so these are very important nodes in a larger system to indoctrinate American kids and to harvest up taxpayer money in service of this left-wing ideology. All, I remind you, under the guise of the Civil Rights Act itself. And so what's important is to expose exactly what this means in practice. And these people are not subtle in their language.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2139 - SHOCKING Tapes: Department of Education Pushes SEX WORK FOR CHILDREN
It's very clear what they're trying to communicate. But for many years, no one was looking. And so my job is try to expose it, to bring it to public attention and then to bring it to the attention of the Doge boys who are in the Department of Education building right now looking through contracts to terminate.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2139 - SHOCKING Tapes: Department of Education Pushes SEX WORK FOR CHILDREN
And this organization that that that hosted this seminar that you're rolling the clips from has now had all federal funding revoked moving forward.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2139 - SHOCKING Tapes: Department of Education Pushes SEX WORK FOR CHILDREN
No, it sounds absurd, but you're not missing anything. That is exactly what they're saying. They're saying that actually decriminalizing and destigmatizing sex work for black transgender children is the new noble calling. And look, that's certainly opinion that you can have protected by the First Amendment. I disagree. I'm sure that you disagree.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2139 - SHOCKING Tapes: Department of Education Pushes SEX WORK FOR CHILDREN
But the important thing here is that this is being subsidized by federal taxpayers. So every taxi driver, line cook and electrician around the country that's working hard to feed their family is actually chipping in for this idea that we should destigmatize sex work for children. It is so outrageous that it's almost hard to believe it's true.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2139 - SHOCKING Tapes: Department of Education Pushes SEX WORK FOR CHILDREN
Yeah, that's right. And look, the coinage is unique and funny. It's called adultism. But the idea is actually a very old left-wing idea. If you study the Chinese Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, one of the key tactics from the Chinese Communist Party was to radicalize children and to turn them against their parents. And so you had mobs of kids that were being radicalized by communist teachers.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2139 - SHOCKING Tapes: Department of Education Pushes SEX WORK FOR CHILDREN
that were then going door to door, tearing down houses, pulling people out of their homes, stuffing their mouths with dirt, bashing them over the head with rocks. And so while it can appear to be a kind of trivial idea, adultism, there is a rich history of this. And the basic mechanism is one that is very dangerous.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2139 - SHOCKING Tapes: Department of Education Pushes SEX WORK FOR CHILDREN
When you get the government in between the parents and children, history suggests that terrible things can happen.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2139 - SHOCKING Tapes: Department of Education Pushes SEX WORK FOR CHILDREN
Yeah. And my favorite part is that the beginning, it says, according to research. But if you actually take a look at the research, you dig into the footnotes, it is like the most shockingly, or maybe not shockingly, shoddy garbage imaginable. And yet this idea that babies kind of come out of the womb with a clan hood is just so farcical and ridiculous. And yet,
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2139 - SHOCKING Tapes: Department of Education Pushes SEX WORK FOR CHILDREN
It's captured the minds of people with PhDs. These people who run these programs are PhDs, mostly in education. And so I think that is the perfect example of someone completely suspending their common sense, suspending any experience of children. Children are incredible at that age. Uh, they're, they're, they're open to so many different people. They're open to everything. Um, uh,
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2139 - SHOCKING Tapes: Department of Education Pushes SEX WORK FOR CHILDREN
But also how ideology can really poison you. And so the story is not really about these education centers themselves. They should be gone and they will be gone. But the story is that we have an educational class in this country that is susceptible to this ideological poison and then becomes fanatical about it when they press it onto our kids. That's the most important thing.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2139 - SHOCKING Tapes: Department of Education Pushes SEX WORK FOR CHILDREN
And so wherever you are in the country, if you're in a red state, if you're in Tennessee or Florida or Idaho, you're not safe from these ideologies because these centers and these national ideologies are trying to find a foothold everywhere.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2139 - SHOCKING Tapes: Department of Education Pushes SEX WORK FOR CHILDREN
Yeah, that's right. And there are already encouraging signs. Of course, Elon's Doge team is going in and eliminating contracts. But the president has greater ambitions. He's called for the abolition of the Department of Education. There is a lot of debate over how he can do that, how far he can take executive action, where he'll need the legislature to actually come through.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2139 - SHOCKING Tapes: Department of Education Pushes SEX WORK FOR CHILDREN
But there's really a simple three-part plan. You spin off the federal financial aid for universities into a separate portfolio that you can then privatize down the line. You continue to spend the money for K-12 schools, special ed, lunch programs by directly block-granting it to the states, so states have greater oversight over how those dollars are used.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2139 - SHOCKING Tapes: Department of Education Pushes SEX WORK FOR CHILDREN
And then you just absolutely crush, demolish, and then salt over all of the quote unquote research, which is really just ideological production. And then you never look back because there is no good that's happening from these programs. You can save the programs that for now are gonna have to be passed through, but we cannot let this survive another four years.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2139 - SHOCKING Tapes: Department of Education Pushes SEX WORK FOR CHILDREN
It survived under Trump, it survived under Bush, it survived under Reagan. Now is the time Americans are finally aware of what's happening with public schools and these left-wing ideologies. We have to capitalize on the momentum and actually get this job done.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2139 - SHOCKING Tapes: Department of Education Pushes SEX WORK FOR CHILDREN
So my team has spent the last two months really pouring over all of the various nooks and crannies, sub-departments and grantees of the Department of Education. This is an institution that spends billions of dollars every year, and it functions in essence as a left-wing patronage machine.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2139 - SHOCKING Tapes: Department of Education Pushes SEX WORK FOR CHILDREN
And so I started dropping clips, now that Linda McMahon is in her confirmation hearings to become the secretary, to show the extent of the ideological corruption. And This is the Ibram Kendi, Robin DiAngelo-style narrative that is being pushed by thousands of employees associated with the department. They're saying America is fundamentally racist.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2139 - SHOCKING Tapes: Department of Education Pushes SEX WORK FOR CHILDREN
They're saying that all white people function as white supremacists. They're saying that you have to give up your power, privilege, and resources to the oppressed. All of the narratives that we've seen over the last four years, this is a major point of focus for the department, regardless of who's in office.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2139 - SHOCKING Tapes: Department of Education Pushes SEX WORK FOR CHILDREN
It's really interesting. These were centers that were established by legislation all the way back in the 1960s to provide a colorblind equality in education, a kind of noble principle. But as with much of our civil rights apparatus, it's been hijacked by the radical left and these education centers that receive millions of dollars in public funds.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2139 - SHOCKING Tapes: Department of Education Pushes SEX WORK FOR CHILDREN
They're in charge of advising public school districts, not just in blue states, but in all 50 states. They've been captured by left wing radicals who are promoting the Black Lives Matter agenda, who are describing the education system as a concentration camp.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2139 - SHOCKING Tapes: Department of Education Pushes SEX WORK FOR CHILDREN
And in one of the clips that you have today, even made the absurd argument that babies are racist, especially white babies become racist before they can even talk.