Completely anecdotal data point on whatever we want to call the thing that Republicans are calling CRT in schools: I have a dear college friend sufficiently far to the left that she refuses to read my columns, lest it impact our friendship.
She's also a suburban mom in a super-liberal suburb.
Nonetheless, the last time I visited, I got an earful about what her kids were hearing in school, because she's not super politically engaged, and had missed the shift that labels the race-blind ideals she learned from her (now deceased) mother as racist.
I was put in the odd position of trying to explain the thinking of the people arguing that "I don't see color" is problematic, to someone far to my left who wasn't having any of it.
This is someone with a PhD in social science and multiple newspaper subscriptions.
This is someone with a PhD in social science and multiple newspaper subscriptions.
It just really drove home how rarified these arguments are, and how strange they sound to people who come upon them suddenly, mid-argument, rather than having been immersed in the debate for a decade and a half.
Even someone who you would demographically assume would be up on her Kendi and her DiAngelo. But she was busy raising three kids instead.
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