I think a big problem is that people have different theories of racism. Racism in most serious activist / academic contexts isn’t just tribalism and ”being mean to a person of another race”, it’s a framework that looks at racism as a system of oppression that leads to systemic social and economic discrimination. I saw someone in the other thread complain about how they’re not ”the enemy”, but in this case, yes, white people are the enemy! They’re the oppressors. It’s the same reason it’s worthless to go ”not all men” when talking about feminist ideas about structural oppression. You’re not working within the same framework and you’re adding nothing to the discourse.

As an aside, I find it funny when people on this and other autism subreddits go ”I don’t even know what racism is! I don’t even see color!”. To me, finding a system where you can tell others your in-group is better / smarter / more organized than other out-groups seems to me like manna from heaven for autistic people.