And people are punching back.
A Las Vegas charter school is being sued in federal court by a family alleging the school is indoctrinating children into the view that White people are inherently racist and perpetuate their economic and political power by oppressing people of color.
“This isn’t some passing ideological trend,” said Jonathan O’Brien, a lawyer with SchoolhouseRights.org who filed the lawsuit for the family. “These people are crackpot bigots.”
There’s an important distinction to be made in the various claims we get from these “crackpot bigots.”
One is that “White privilege is … codified across all aspects of American society.” I don’t think that’s true, but the claim is not inherently racist.
The racist part is when they say that all white people are oppressors, or when they ask all white people to apologize for what some white people have done in the past. That is textbook racism.