Over 30 years ago, while working at a government agency I was forced to attend diversity training on racism. What I learned in taking that course was the “racism” has multiple meanings.
If a person is in a protected class (i.e. Black, Latino, Native American, Pacific Islander, etc.) then they have “Privilege” They cannot be racist because of racial privilege. It absolutely does not matter what they say or do, they are not racist, unless they attack another protected class and then it is something everyone wants to sweep under the rug and cover up.
On the other hand, someone who is not in a “protected class” is racist until proven otherwise.
As I said, this have been known and taught in diversity education for over three decades. Racism is a defined term and the definition depends on one’s racial and ethnic background. Nothing new here.
“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”
― George Orwell, 1984