So many people, both left and right, need to get past this simplistic, binary thinking. Christopher Rufo was only able to generate this controversy because there is a significant kernel of truth in what he's saying. Otherwise you have to assume that every single person (including numerous black people) who has an issue with some aspects of race education is an idiot who can't think for themselves and was taken in by this one man.

Rufo dishonestly branded every instance of race-related craziness as CRT. But the fact is, the craziness already existed. And some of it really is based on offshoots of CRT. If you refuse to acknowledge this because a "right wing operative" made you aware of it, you doom yourself to never see the whole picture. A functional worldview can't be built around the belief that every word that comes out of the mouth of anybody to your political right is a wholesale lie.