I agree with Emily Chamlee-Wright's argument as far as it goes, but in the current moment I don't think it goes far enough. Her example helps me say why. When I read about the Sellers/Batson "private" exchange that wasn't at all private, my first response wasn't, "hey, why didn't Batson give his colleague what for over her clearly racist assumption and comment?" Rather, my first response was: well, of course, she's distressed over the fact that in her experience a disproportionate number of students of color may struggle in ways that white Georgetown students don't. I shouldn't have to say that recognizing such a reality and worrying about it isn't racist. Here's the high-wire act educators now have to walk: knowing that education in the U.S. yields class and racial differences in preparation for jobs and higher education and being dedicated to ameliorating those differences so that all kids and young adults can flourish AND stating categorically that we see no such differences in our classrooms and that anyone who does see such differences is a racist who needs to be punished. In my view, what's needed now is less parsing of when anti-racist/classist/cishomotransphiles need to speak up and more acknowledgment of how deeply down the rabbit hole of denunciation we've already gone, perhaps irreparably. Batson's groveling apology just makes me deeply sad.