We are bombarded with babble, meaningless flighty confetti and told it is information. The signal to noise ratio is at an all-time low in the media, and people are not well enough educated to determine which is which.
When the word 'discriminate' became an evil (with the exception of good metal detectors) people became less discriminating, abandoning the determination of what was good in their confusion over prejudice and discrimination--the two of which were conflated to mean "racist", something no decent person would want to be.
It is time to retire the race card, too, but in other matters, discriminating between crap and valuable data needs to be revived.