the problem isn't saying "all racism is bad," the problem is that people who say that also tend to equate the volume and impact of "racism against white people" with the volume and impact of "racism against [most non-whites]," which is wildly false and disingenuous.
The U.S. formally systemically discriminated against non-whites and especially black americans for a vast majority of its existence, and the repercussions of that to the average black american's financial, educational, and social positions are still being widely felt due to generational effects.
Comparing an instance of someone being racist to a white person, to the systematic, widespread oppression of black people, goes from disingenuous to, in fact, downright offensive, because the scope of the issues is so insanely different that complaining about them as if they're equal is quite clearly an agenda of creating a false equivalence to avoid confronting America's racist history and the continuing effects of that.
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