I think a lot of non-political people are slowly waking up to the fact that left-wing radicals have become a dominant force within several major institutions and are now using those positions to dictate a lot of our political and cultural conversations.
That's why a term like latinx, which is still only being used by ~2% of Hispanic speakers and that ~40% of Hispanics find offensive, is now regularly featured in news headlines and among academic discussions.
It's why neo-racism has become mostly normalized to the point where you now have major media figures writing and promoting obviously bigoted nonsense without consequence. It's why a morally bankrupt bigot like Kendi has become a prominent speaker and author.
This doesn't happen overnight. Instead of having debates about ideas, including radical ones, many universities now promote only one acceptable way of thinking. Then people who have been indoctrinated to think that way graduate and take prominent positions in media & education.
Now a lot of people are seeing it reflected in what grade schools are teaching and what is becoming allowable public discourse. And it's terrifying to people that are otherwise non-political because it feels like we are going in the wrong direction.
Most people viewed the last 5-6 decades as important eras of progress in the US. We took major steps toward viewing people as individuals deserving to be judged by their actions instead of mostly being defined by race, sexual orientation, gender etc.
Now radicals in prominent positions are trying to drag us in the opposite direction. They think it's fine because they will be the ones dictating the language and rules moving forward, but it is the antithesis of what most decent and morally aware people view as progress.
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