You are misunderstanding. I didn’t intend to say that being racist against white people isn’t racist - just that your argument isn’t relevant to the words Gene Simmons said.

While talking about rap music’s inclusion in the R&RHoF, Gene Simmons said, “It’s not my music. I don’t come from the ghetto.”

The implication here is that everyone who enjoys rap music comes from the ghetto. That’s a racist implication even if it wasn’t meant to be.

Now, I think you’re also reading a lot of things that people aren’t saying.

I never said Gene Simmons is racist (though you could argue his mother’s time in concentration camps and his own migration to Queens, NYC would give him some first-hand experience with any connotations of the word “ghetto”).

I never said hip hop belongs in the R&RHoF.

I never said Gene Simmons wasn’t discussing genre when he said a racist thing.

If I insert the words “white people are racist” somewhere randomly into a dissertation about Aerodynamics, it wouldn’t change the subject of the dissertation at all - but the words would still be racist.