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The creation myth behind the campaign to abolish America
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TL;DR
- The author shares a "conversion story" similar to teachers who left during the era.
- She was unpopular among co-workers in her final years of teaching.
- Her colleagues reacted negatively to her questions about "woke" terminology.
- They stopped speaking to her after she questioned the concept of "equity" in an email.