Words matter. Meanings of words matter. Exactitude of speech and writing matters.
You can tell that most of the people throwing the word "racist" around (also homophobe, misogynist, sexist, privilege) don't really know what the word means.
Critical Theory believes that anybody who is "white", or who refuses to acknowledge the existence of SYSTEMIC racism (no one is seriously discounting individual examples of prejudice), or who will not disavow or apologize for their "whiteness", or fully embrace the godless Black Lives Matter political movement, is a racist and a white supremacist. To these people, you are literally evil incarnate, because you were born evil, if you are "white". They make their hatred of men, and the fair-skinned, and Christians, and heterosexuals very clear.
There is a word for people like this.
bigot: one who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.
- American Heritage Dictionary
They are bigots.
So when people start in with their hatred or disdain for "whiteness" or "white people", or any grouping of people deemed evil by this new religion of critical theory, it is acceptable to call them what they are.
They are bigots.
Every word they use against their opponents, they genuinely embody. It's amazing just how little to no ability to self-reflect they have.
Antifa uses fascistic tactics. Night of long knives era political quelling of any dissident, thoughtful, individuals, as well as the censoring of worship of a specific religious faith. Couple that with their ravenous attacks against businesses of a particular political spectrum as well as figurative book burning by deplatforming and outright bans, and you get pre WW2 Nazi Germany.
They say they hate homophobia but run the shirts of Che Guevara, a known homophobe.
Despite saying they detest racism, they were caught on camera calling black people who disagreed with their dogma Uncle Toms or n-rs with a hard r.
Apparently, they hate corporate entities, but love to parrot the beliefs of big name corporate news organizations and defend big tech's constitutional violations.
They hated the 2A and said the police should do the policing, but now they love it now that they've become the authority through force.
Trump to them is a liar, but they believe every lie regurgitated to them by the news.
They say to trust the news but clobber independent journalists who actually give a damn about integrity, not some dribble by anonymous sources.
And to toss around the word bigots, one that they embody, is particularly rich. Many refuse to have rational discourse with the other side, and wonder why they are being called out.
To the rational left out there reading this saying this does, I'm sorry but you picked your side when you refused to call these people out. Centrism is the new left anyway. That's how far left the party has gone.