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In academia the humanities have a bad habit of appropriating simple, common words as technical jargon, and one of the words thus appropriated is racism.
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This is what was behind that thing a bit back where the University of Delaware (?) decided to tell all its students that only white people are racist. It makes sense once you worked out that they just happened to be making up their own definition of "racist" that nobody had ever fucking heard before.
Personally I don't know why it's so hard to say that yes, black people and Mexicans and whatever other group can be racist too, it just doesn't mean fuck-all because they don't have any of the social or political power it would take to turn their racist preferences into reality. (Protip for everyone who just started typing something about affirmative action - responding to racism by making things less racist is not, in fact, racist.)