Moral Panic Attack

"It's not what you say, it's what people hear."

An anti-CRT protester demonstrates outside a Virginia government building. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

I began this newsletter, in part, as a way to better understand the power of language and how our world is shaped by the specific words used to describe issues and objects, places and people. Whether I was fully aware of it…