How Intellectual Inquiry Became Code for Defending Bigotry

Conservatives say they’re just “asking questions,” but the ones they ask have a disturbing thing in common

Tim Wise
Momentum
Published in
8 min readNov 15, 2021

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When conservatives bemoan the state of education and its supposed hijacking by woke mobs intent on destroying critical thought in the name of political correctness, they insist they are…

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Tim Wise
Momentum

Anti-racism educator and author of 9 books, including White Like Me and, most recently, Dispatches from the Race War (City Lights, December 2020)