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When family discussions about critical thinking become battles over cultural identity

My daughter came home from college saying that everything our family taught her about logical thinking is just 'white supremacist rationality' and my husband thinks she's been brainwashed, but I'm wondering if we're all just operating from unexamined assumptions. We can barely have a conversation anymore without someone getting accused of being either racist or anti-intellectual.

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A family is grappling with the recognition that their shared intellectual traditions may be less universal than they believed, threatening both their relationships and their sense of truth.

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