Reminder: they were two professors at the very liberal Evergreen University, fifteen years in their posts, true-blue lefties (Bernie supporters), hounded out a few years ago for being insufficiently woke, for questioning a clearly racist “Blacks-only Day” on campus.
Net sum: they are bona fide people of the Left who have become alarmed at the dangers in super-woke leftism. What Maajid Nawaz has dubbed the “Regressive Left“.