The "racism" card is really being used as a gateway narrative. The starting point is just "workshops" and "awareness building", and goes on from there - they found a scalable and deniable way to filter for the most dedicated, same as a cult. By the time they see themselves as "activists", they already have an ingrained sense of using subversive means as priority and to deny the average American their political prerogatives ("voting against their interest" etc). So much of the hard left is build around isolation and indoctrination, on top of the fear/rage donations, it is like a distributed cult. But the individuals still must be made to take responsibility. Their warped morality does not absolve them from clearly criminal acts, regardless of how the idea is initially pushed on to them.