Philosophically, the problem we now face with the weaponization of "racism" began decades ago. The fork in the road was when the word "discrimination" became stigmatized.

There is nothing wrong with individual discrimination. It is in fact an inherent trait in humanity. We are constantly discriminating. Discriminating is simply making a judgment - based on our experience of our own life and the information sources around us - about a new entry into that life. In other words, if I have the experience of having been attacked by a German Shepherd as a child, I will naturally discriminate against German Shepherds. It's my natural reaction to past experience.

But when it comes to race, we have been told for decades we are not allowed to discriminate for any reason. Now personally, like most people, I have a mixed experience of the various races. In the several decades of my life, I have had some very positive experiences with people of each race, and I have had some very negative experiences of people of each race. This is true of every racial group I can think of. Thus, my experience leads me to the conclusion that the things that make people decent are not related to race but to cultural upbringing and other personality traits (equally shared among all races).

But that's my experience. There are people who have had terrible experiences associated with a particular race. This is true in all directions. Some individuals have experienced particularly bad treatment from people of a different race.

I support those people's reaction to their experience, and their right to discriminate against people of the race that has hurt them. It is an absolutely natural response, and to deny the reality of their experience in the name of ideology is to dismiss the truth of that experience. The experience did happen.

We have now reached the pinnacle of ideological rejection of discrimination. From one extreme (=all blacks are savages, lesser intelligence, more violence, etc) to the other (all whites are racists, inherently evil, more violence, etc) in about 60 years. Ironically, both of these simplistic points of view are actually due to a lack of discrimination. Rather than discriminate (which is to say look at the individual in front of me based on my personal experience), it is mandated that we accept the state-sanctioned wisdom. We are not allowed to discriminate, and so injustice is assured whenever the general state rule is incorrect (which will likely be the majority of the time).

The sooner we allow individuals to discriminate (i.e. Stop State-Sanctioned Discrimination), the sooner we can limit the damage from each individual case and judge it based on its merits.

Character Matters!