This is just the level of aggressive indoctrination and apologetics in academia and cultural structures.

Look, they do the same shit with Xenu and Scientology.

Scientology literally doesn't teach Xenu until you are fucking years into the organization. People at the lowest tiers literally don't even know that it's a thing. They are literally told it is a lie. This is because people in upper tiers are told that if people in lower tiers are told the truth it will kill them.

This is why Breadtube was attacking Lindsay for pointing out an example in a CRT textbook as (completely fictional and unrelated to CRT).

They will literally lie to your face, and you have to prove their own positions to them. Then when you do, they argue you made up a strawman that they never believed in. Then they will go on pushing the same shit later.

If you argue with a low level Scientologist, they will tell you that Xenu is fiction and they won't know that it's real. If you argue with a high level Scientologist, they will lie to you and tell you it isn't real, even though they know it's true and we have documents. If you show it to them, they will lie to you again and say it's made up. Even if their fucking signature is on it.

This is the fundamental difficulty of trying to convince people the truth of individuals acting only in "bad faith".