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"In our time, the equivalent academic tendency is one that travels under many names—diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI); critical race theory (CRT); antiracism; white fragility; intersectionality; social justice; anticolonialism; social and emotional learning; progressivism; safetyism; critical social justice; identity Marxism; and (primarily to its denigrators) “wokeness.”"

The fact that so much has been written on the topic of “what to call this thing” is, in itself, really interesting. Not sure I quite understand it, or what it means.

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The less charitable explanation is that it is a tool for obfuscation and motte-and-bailey rhetorical gamesmanship.

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Just call it blithering idiocy!

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