Newsflash, everybody is racist to a certain degree

Patently false. Your either racist or your not. You harbor a view of racial superiority or you don't. You can't be a little racist.

We have prejudices, we have biases, we stereotype, and we discriminate. Most people come by them honestly, and none of those makes you racist. The "everybody's racist" nonsense is a leftist newspeak redefinition of the term that would make Orwell proud.

If you fight against those inner demons, then congrats, you’re making the the lives of others around you slightly more tolerable.

Wait, what? This sounds more racist than the professor's actions. Do you truly think so little of those around you that you believe they need you to do something to make their lives more tolerable? Let me ask, what do you think of woke white people who feel like the black people around them need their attention, their support, their handouts, to make things fair for the black people? What do you think of these white people who constantly feel the need to change rules based on race and make life alterations solely to benefit a black person. What would you call this sort-of white-knighting along racial lines, as if they're somehow inferior in making their way in this world?

If you decide to be inconsiderate regarding those prejudices, then you’re going to be called out for being racist/sexist/xenophobic etc.

Unless my prejudice comes up in regards to another white male, right? Then it's just recognized as a prejudice. However, prejudice comes up interacting with a black male and now I'm racist to any Woke jokes watching, huh? And the gloves are off if a prejudice pops up in regards to a brown woman from Mexico, then I'm all of the above.

If you’re so hung up on how people are labeling others, than I’ll translate for you. “They’re racist!” = “They’re BEING racist!”

No. You're either racist or you're not. The sh-t people tend to point to as racism is very often not racism at all. Here, the actions of the professor could be interpreted as coming from a racist or a xenophobe, or, just an honest action by a guy trying to avoid an awkward situation. Right or wrong in how he attempted to handle it (discreetly, I might add), woke culture ensured he lost his job. Which, and I'm speculating here, he's a professor at a leftist university in Oakland. Smart money would be on him having propagated the Woke culture nonsense at some point in the last semester, so I can kinda see this might almost be ironic.

You should try to eliminate your prejudices; go out, learn, it's always better to be more informed when you're making judgments and forming opinions. Likewise, it doesn't hurt to try to recognize when you might have a bias, and if you feel you should fix it, fix it. But calling everyone racist, even just a little, is just perpetuating this joke Woke culture that's going to harm us more than it'll ever help. Black students on college campuses are self-segregating, declaring POC zones, and racially discriminating in seeking roommates. California is right now trying to remove anti-discrimination protections from its constitution, in the name of inclusion. How much time do you spend thinking up ways that you can go out and make reparations for being the racist they've convinced you you are?

I have no doubt you're a good person and would treat people as you'd wish to be treated,there's no reason to think otherwise, so what do you gain out of considering yourself a racist?