How do the culture lies get started by republicans

[Boydog]

Such as critical race theory and cancel culture. Who starts this fabricated shit

[temporary311]

1. Rich people who don't wanna pay taxes

fund right wing "think" tanks that run focus groups for shit like this.

[In It to Win It]

2. Rich people who want slave labor

[I_UndergroundPanther]

15. This 👆

[moondust]

3. Lee Atwater laid the foundation.

The Spirit of Lee Atwater Lingers Among Us: How Critical Race Theory Became the GOP’s new Southern Strategy

[Greybnk48]

4. "Think Tanks," or I prefer "Toxic Stink Tanks"

run by evil right wing sociopaths.

[sop]

5. Frank Luntz, and a few others like him.

[Walleye]

9. Yes he is the culprit in a lot of this and his partner in crime Newt Gingrich

[keep_left]

6. The latest version started a few years ago with "OMGBBQ! Frankfurt School!" and "Cultural Marxism!".

Which of course really = "JEWS!". But apparently people like Erich Fromm were a little too esoteric for dumbass talk-radio fans--or maybe they stopped mentioning him because at least some knew that Fromm had them figured out decades ago (read Escape From Freedom). Whatever the case, "Frankfurt School" just didn't work as a snarl word. I think everyone from Savage to Hannity tried to run that line at one point or another. "Critical Race Theory" is just the latest version, and it also benefits from being slightly more deniable when it comes to the "Jew" dog-whistling.

[Thomas Hurt]

7. The christofascists do their resurch!

[Kath2]

8. Hannity and Carlson, to name two of them.

[SMC22307]

10. How a Conservative Activist Invented the Conflict Over Critical Race Theory

How a Conservative Activist Invented the Conflict Over Critical Race Theory
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/how-a-conservative-activist-invented-the-conflict-over-critical-race-theory

[c-rational]

11. Their hired think tanks who devise these devilish strategies. Scripted with the know nothings

following along like parakeets.

[abqtommy]

12. The reTHUG Fascists rely on The Lie, Ratfuckery and Terror. They'll

happily kill us all if we let them.

[njhoneybadger]

13. The Koch Political Machine.

[MustLoveBeagles]

14. Billionaires who have nothing better to do

[Nay]

16. 1) by constant repetition on all media, and 2) distribution of the meme

to that media by the pub power elite.

[Bayard]

17. Shit is right

Because it comes out of asses.

[tanyev]

18. They've been at it for awhile.

Right wing email forwards to everyone in your address book was a big thing in the early days of internet. I got dropped from two different friends lists after a fact-based reply to one about Madalyn Murray O'Hair and another about health coverage for illegal immigrants, I think.