Coincidentally, I just got taught a lesson in this yesterday afternoon as I was out for a long drive. I live deep in the countryside outside normal FM radio (NPR) reception range, so I had turned conservative talk radio on out of boredom.

A woman called in who described herself as a teacher at an expensive Manhattan private secondary school she didn’t wish to identify.

She described herself as a traditional liberal, but complained bitterly about CRT in her school’s curriculum, and about how a few brave teachers have put their careers in jeopardy by fighting back against it.

But listening to her, it quickly became apparent she doesn’t know what CRT is. She was complaining about curriculum standards that are increasingly mandating diversity in literature.

She was very angry that certain traditional classics are being deemphasized in favor of a more diverse reading experience for her students. She was exceptionally angry, livid might be a fair term, that students are spending less mandatory time with The Odyssey in favor of works she calls “inferior,” that have been “forced” into the curriculum because they were written by people of color.

She describes herself and other teachers opposing newer curriculum standards as “persecuted” and afraid to speak up lest they be labeled as racists.

But despite calling in to oppose CRT, she never addressed anything to do with CRT, which I imagine is probably not taught in her school at all.