On the one side is a politician using the power of the state to enforce ideological conformity just to advance his own career goals.
On the other side you have an education establishment dedicated to enforcing its own conformity to an ideology that teaches the inherent evil of one group of people and the inescapable helplessness of another group.
Do you really want to align yourself with either of those camps?
One of the dangers of politics is that it leads us to think there must be a good side vs. a bad side, when in reality it's mostly bad vs. bad.