Everywhere we turn, it feels like someone is screaming about racism. Discriminating, hate crime, systemic oppression, exclusion, all things that increase tension and help people discover a new version of racism.
Racism is used as an excuse for bad behavior. Claims that rude and intrusive behavior is a reaction to some form of racism. Racism is the excuse for riots, looting, assaults and murder.
Racism is no longer simply based on discrimination or hate directed at a certain group of people based solely on race. Now it includes that racism can only be from a majority group to a minority group. If you want to prove racism against a specific group, add “phobia” to the group.
If we stop using it for a while, maybe racism will go back to a few idiots who hate people for the way they look.
The New Word Wars 
Your whole post made so much sense, but this line: “If we stop using it for a while, maybe racism will go back to a few idiots who hate people for the way they look.” Yes! Maybe even one day those few idiots also won’t be racist.
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I was trying to express what Morgan Freeman said in an interview, “You stop calling me a black man and I stop calling you a white man.” I don’t expect everyone to stop being racist. I just wish it weren’t emphasized so much.
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