"We should reopen the schools, it's safe," is a right-wing view, heavily motivated by right-wing anti-union politics, that has disguised itself as a left-wing argument in favor of racial equity.

Need proof? Read Douthat excitedly embracing it. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/opinion/liberal-cities-schools-covid.html

This exact trick - using a sort of vague racial equity as a Trojan horse for right-wing education policy - has been used over and over. It has been used to promote charter schools. It has been used to promote vouchers. It's used to attack school integration.

And of course, Douthat cites "Nice White Parents," a podcast that has primarily served as toxic right-wing propaganda by giving white liberals permission to oppose integration on the basis that other white liberals all secretly oppose it