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Tipping isn't racist or sexist any more than language is, but you can have sexist or racist tippers.

I won't eat at a restaurant that decides I must pay X% tip. I occasionally get tips at work when I do outstanding service, and it's awesome but not required. I pay tips on the same way.

It isn't hard to find servers who do support tipping; especially in high-end and fine dining, it's relatively lucrative.

Racist/sexist in that it allows racists and sexists to express their biases via poor tips? Or something else.

Are tips universally distributed? I would suspect that unconscious bias can impact tipping norms and result in certain classes of people getting smaller or larger tips. I don't have data to back up my hypothesis, however. Additionally, tips tend to go to front of house staff, where certain groups are more/less represented.

That's fair. To be clear, I wasn't denying the claim, just asking for your thoughts around it.

I tip 20% rounded up to the nearest dollar every time, unless I'm really disappointed with the service which is quite rare.