What can we tell about NPR CEO Katherine Maher based on a review of her tweets? Chris Rufo notes that she has tweeted more than 29,000 times. He has found a few themes:
What you notice first about Maher's public speech are the buzzwords and phrases: "structural privilege," "epistemic emergency," "transit justice," "non-binary people," "late-stage capitalism," "cis white mobility privilege," "the politics of representation," "folx." She supported Black Lives Matter from its earliest days. She compares driving cars with smoking cigarettes. She is very concerned about "toxic masculinity."
On every topic, Maher adopts the fashionable language of left-wing academic theory and uses it as social currency, even when her efforts veer into self-parody. She never explains, never provides new interpretation—she just repeats the phrases, in search of affirmation and, when the time is right, a promotion.
Maher understands the game: America's elite institutions reward loyalty to the narrative. Those who repeat the words move up; those who don't move out.
This is the person in charge of NPR. As you can see from Rufo's article, she has also taken a hard stand in favor of censorship.
As CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, Maher made censorship a critical part of her policy, under the guise of fighting "disinformation." In a speech to the Atlantic Council, an organization with extensive ties to U.S. intelligence services, she explained that she "took a very active approach to disinformation," coordinated censorship "through conversations with government," and suppressed dissenting opinions related to the pandemic and the 2020 election.
In that same speech, Maher said that, in relation to the fight against disinformation, the "the number one challenge here that we see is, of course, the First Amendment in the United States."
Rufo's article is titled, "Quotations from Chairman MaherNPR's new CEO exemplifies the ideological capture of America's institutions."
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