“You can teach kids how to treat each other with respect and dignity without trying to racially essentialize kids.”

I sit down with Maud Maron, an elected New York public school council member and public defender who was fired from her job at the Legal Aid Society after speaking out against race essentialism in schools. She is running for New York City Council.

We discuss the injection of critical race theory into schools, why lowering education standards hurts poor, minority kids, and what she describes as a new “community of the canceled” that has emerged in the last year.