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OK, you win. I've heard enough. Kyle Rittenhouse is a hero. I should have never suggested he was anything less than that. The death threats you've sent me through my employer and former associates, the N-word-laced messages that found their way to my inbox, the profanity-filled emails you copied my supervisors on have convinced me that all that matters is that Rittenhouse was able to protect himself. The jury finding him guilty on all counts doesn't mean he is "innocent" in the way O.J. Simpson was "innocent." You win: It means he is innocent, full stop. I'm convinced: Other young...

Critical race theory is something very specific: It’s an attempt to deal with how race affects even neutral seeming laws. That’s what it actually is. And yet, over the past year or so, it has become so many other things that people don’t like about how people talk about race. It is important to actually define these terms. If you don’t like the book White Fragility, just say you don’t like that book—and explain why. Don’t try to lump that into this whole CRT label. […] Take white privilege, for instance. Most people have what I would call a fluency...