Drawing people from as far as Baltimore and across South Carolina, conservative commentator Charlie Kirk spoke in Clemson on Monday night as part of his “Exposing Critical Racism Tour.”⠀ ⠀ Kirk was invited by Clemson's chapter of Turning Point USA (TPUSA) as the seventh of eight stops on his tour. Clemson’s TPUSA chapter is the largest in the country, out of over 2,500 chapters on college campuses, according to Kirk.⠀ ⠀ Critical race theory (CRT), the topic of the event, is defined as a way of thinking about America’s history through the lens of racism. It centers on the idea that racism is systemic in the nation’s institutions and that institutions function to maintain the dominance of white people in society, according to the Associated Press.⠀ ⠀ While CRT was first developed in the 1970s and ‘80s, it recently gained widespread media coverage after the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 sparked a deeper conversation about social justice. “Over the past year and a half there has bee...