Wisconsin Republicans want to eliminate these words from classrooms

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This is a great example of what I call "making Annoying Thing X your North Star and running to the South Pole." It's something which is way too common in politics, and is frankly quite immature and leads nowhere. The fact that woke language is annoying and that some people on Twitter or in meetings that take place at schools go too far doesn't mean that we should literally ban words in schools, some of which vary greatly based on context. This sort of thing makes it extremely hard to take conservatives who claim "we're the pro-free speech party now" seriously at all, and makes it sound like instead of criticizing antiracism and suggesting a better way of addressing racism in education, they simply want to either ignore the topic completely, force their beliefs through education, or are only interesting in "owning the left."

If conservatives want to have a productive conversation about what a better way forward is, great! I'm not a fan of the current brand of antiracism in education, either. This sort of thing, however, is counterproductive. I've talked about how some academics push me away with how they talk about racism. Well, when conservatives do this, it pushes me even further away and makes me less sympathetic to their arguments, since it makes me extremely skeptical of their true motives.