What are the flaws in the argument that "racism is not real"?
Not sure if this is the right sub for this, but I encountered a particularly "interesting" take on the Instagram cesspool that argues that "racism isn't real" on account of its supposed exclusion of racism towards white people.
The entire post centered around a rather simple string of logic that essentially went:
If [THING] is acceptable for non-white people to do/not do, why isn't it the same for white people?
The post then went on to argue on the point of falsifiability (e.g. "racism is unfalsifiable because its definition, 'discrimination based on race', isn't applied fairly to white people"), which the poster believed proved that racism is, in fact, "not real".
My primary issue with this post (and a few of the comments I read under it) were that the supposed definition of racism assumed that a) racism is defined purely as "discrimination based on race" (it's arguably more complex and systemic than that) and b) that the systemic definition of racism is based purely on hypothetical interpersonal exchanges (e.g. "what if I'm white and my black boss at work is harassing me over my skin color?"), instead of engaging with the actual examples of systemic racism at work that are observed on a wider, patterned scale.
Is there something I'm missing here, or is the post quackery as I assumed?
The post in question:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DaGWXBNkabi/?img_index=1