I'm going to quote a passage 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘹𝘵 from Thomas Sowell's "Black Rednecks and White Liberals" and then put it into the context of your Commentary.

"'𝘔𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘮' 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘴-𝘢𝘯𝘥-𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥. 𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺, 𝘪𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘢 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘴-𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘯𝘰-𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘯𝘰𝘯-𝘞𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴. 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘣𝘪𝘢𝘴, 𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘰𝘤𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮--𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴--𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴--𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺, 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺, 𝘰𝘳 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘦."

Change 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺 to 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 and 𝗪𝗲𝘀𝘁 to 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝘀 and you have not only Walter but perhaps most of the people 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 these kinds of ideas. I currently have a good friend a bit pissed off at me because I called him out on calling everything he doesn't agree with a lie. He happens to be to my political right, but I see the same behavior in people to my political left. 𝘛𝘏𝘌𝘠 have warts, but not me. Did I just do that?

I see this as a source of so-called anti-CRT or "don't say gay" claims. The anti-CRT people say, "You are teaching my children to be ashamed of their white skin" and the CRT people are saying, "we want a non-whitewashed history to be taught" and then of course the ant-CRT people will say "You only want to talk about the warts on white people" and on and on it goes like the bloody Hatfield's and McCoys multi-generational feud that started in a dispute about a pig.

It might be helpful if people would say, "Let us not debate each other's straw men. Tell me exactly what you want. I'll tell you what I see as an issue, and you can tell me what you think is wrong with my perceived issue. We can do this in both directions." It would be really special if people occasionally spoke about good things, accomplishments and successes, rather than, "You evil bastards!" That is small scale, but it might be the best that we can do for now. A long running well thought public debate like The Federalists and anti-Federalists did with their papers would be just great, but if there is something like that out there, rather than attacks on straw men that you know of, I'd love to have you point to it.

Annnd, I left out the accusational name calling.