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Over the past five years,
the activist Christopher Rufo has spearheaded the conservative critique of and direct assault on critical race theory and DEI.
Rufo is likely the reason your conservative uncle knows the phrase critical race theory to begin with.
He's the reason that Trump became obsessed with it as a buzz term for pretty much anything to do with race.
Organizing remarkably effective campaigns against government offices,
corporations, and especially American universities.
After weeks of intense scrutiny, Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigned today.
Critics allege she plagiarized some of her academic writings.
Chris Rufo led a coalition of mostly right-wing opponents in a plan to remove Gay as Harvard's president.
Rufo wrote, scalped after Gay was forced out.