As you read you realize that racism has been redefined so broadly that it can never be considered absent from our society.
If every person doesn’t live in the same exact type household, have the exact same salary, live in exactly the same type neighborhood... (and on and on it goes), there’s some form of racism at play.
Then you realize also, that if by some miracle everyone was given the exact same type home, the same exact type neighborhood, the same exact income, and all the requisite perks equally across the board, it wouldn’t take six months before there would be massive inequities again.
These so-called or perhaps more importantly percieved experts (because of how much they now...) influence the paradigm incredibly. However, that is not bad, because of who they are, the color of their skin. They have that membership card. Their voice counts, because of affirmative action or not.
Others need not apply. We know they would only lie anyway, because they are biased. Thankfully these two couldn’t be. /s
This is a rigged game folks. You want a good look at racism. Take a good look at these two.
Everything they see, they see in racist terms.
Confronted by that premise, they would either deny it or justify it.
After reading your post I began to think that maybe they are merely engaging in psychological projection of their own perceptions onto society at large.
I wonder how they bridge the infinite logical gap from the individual to societal racism.
They have that membership card.
Maybe that is their 'logical' bridge.
His definition of racism certainly fits your apt description of it:
"I would define racism as a system of social advantages and disadvantages doled out based upon group membership..."
Cordially,