"We should reopen the schools, it& #39;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">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/0...

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& #39;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