You know, I think that one of the funniest things that came out of the backlash against critical race theory was the notion that the minorities who brought up the topic of race were creating racial tension. They were merely diagnosing a condition based on the presented symptoms. A person who accurately states that Harvard jumpstarted its institutional strength with investments in chattel slavery creates racial tension to the same degree that a patient can blame their doctor for diagnosing them with leukemia.
This is not to accuse all of the anti-woke folks of bad faith. Some of them clearly maintaining the party line and kicking out whoever doesn’t conform to the agenda, but I also think a good portion of them fell victim to a lie: that there are race- and gender-neutral contexts. For example, one of the arguments against affirmative action is that it places a cover of