Ryan patiently and methodically lays out his account of the relevant events in 11 pages of erudite, scholarly prose, then drops this banger at the end. 💥

Because structural thinking offers inoculation against authoritarianism, the Right has vilified terms that nod to structure (privilege, patriarchy, critical theory), and attacked the institutions trying to help people understand systemic problems. Refusing to use the terms emboldens further attacks.