I mean, yes, the US is a white supremacist settler colonial nation. But it seems like just in the last year that all over the country at school board meetings white folks are getting whipped up into a frenzy over the idea that maybe the US isn't quite so perfect, and that white people just might happen to have had some historic advantages that POC were never given. These meetings are something else. White folks getting into fights and making threats over it.
So what has changed? Is it just a reaction to BLM? I don't think material conditions for white folks have degraded all that significantly in the last year to where there's a materialist answer (though I'm open to hearing it). Is it manufactured outrage from conservative media? I genuinely don't know. But this social phenomenon fascinates me - meaning how white people are reacting to relatively minor attacks on white supremacy and the fact that demographics are shifting and will create a more diverse country in the future.
This. Same people screaming about CRT now were in the local news mad at new drainage ditches and before that it was because there might be a new gas station. It just goes on and on over the stupidest shit. I don't even register it as culture war anymore because we didn't even have any changes to the curriculum to begin with. The conservatives aren't fighting anyone, they're just angry. The bill they want to pass on this can't define what CRT even is and is basically unenforceable.