The term racist today had been bringing an even worst stigma that we could even imagine. Any situation which relates to differences of skin colors, races and religions would spark arguments or grudges with the notion of being a 'Racist'.
Well, I would say that it is the people that diverge the true meaning of racist into an unbearable meaning in view of society. We people love to identify flaw of every issues and strive for improvement. However, this will spells bane too when people start to side track from the main theme. It is in nature for us to seek growth and improve ourselves for the better but this proves to be a downside for the theme of racist.
We sided with the majority of free speakers in the age of technology where most of our thought are diluted with past incidents. Truth told by certain people would easily be viewed as a racist opinion and will be lambasted by the people of the freedom speakers.
People fail to realise racist is actually us recognising differences in people in all walk of lives. A lot of those deemed 'Racist Actions' are actually us respecting their beliefs but not trying to group people as one category which is impossible. There are different people of different characters with how they communicate and being racist is a sort of belonging to their respective group as a protection.
However, this would not apply to extreme cases that causes negative impact. We need to optimise the negative impact and bring understanding to society that on racists are only for the evil doers.
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” - George Bernard Shaw