Pluralus, you bring up some important points about the blurred lines that certain players on the Left are trying to get away with, through a cutesy little "sleight-of-hand."
I delved into this in a recent op-ed I'd penned on the broader concept of "political correctness" -- although I didn't hone in specifically on the Critical Race Theory controversies with expanded discussion, and I should probably do so in a future piece:
https://medium.com/the-bad-influence/how-i-define-political-correctness-d430f16459b0