10/01/2021
Where You Least Expect It
On April 13, 2021, Andrew Gutmann pulled his daughter out of the elite Brearley School for girls, where tuition was $54,000 a year. On the way out, he mailed a letter to all 600 or so families involved with the school:
It cannot be stated strongly enough that Brearley’s obsession with race must stop. It should be abundantly clear to any thinking parent that Brearley has completely lost its way. The administration and the Board of Trustees have displayed a cowardly and appalling lack of leadership by appeasing an anti-intellectual, illiberal mob, and then allowing the school to be captured by that same mob.
The letter went viral, and Guttman learned from the responses he received that Critical Race Theory was not just a “conservative” issue. He heard from leftists, moderates, conservatives, and people who considered themselves apolitical. He received heartbreaking responses from people who had fled from Communist controlled countries only to find that Critical Race Theory was in America also, with its political purity pledges, ideological tests, purges, and race-baiting. For these people, it was Communism all over again.