I hate to have to say something this obvious but here it goes:

Discriminating against a group of human beings for an arbitrary detail such as the color of the skin is indeed racist. No matter if that human being is a freaking north-europe-blonde-arian-white or whatever. No matter if that human being is or not opressed or whatever. Judging people by the color of the skin is WRONG. This ideological bullshit that US is expelling that pretends to normalice racism against white people is atrocious and must end and everyone, like you, that follows this line of thought must be called out and being exposed as what you are, which is being a fucking racist.

Seriously, it is beyond me.

In colloquial English, racism has the same meaning today that it did for decades before - a belief that humans' behavior depends on their race, and prejudice and/or discrimination stemming from such a belief.

The whole "prejudice + power" thing is a late social studies invention. Which is fine - different fields of study often have their own terminology, including using words in ways that do not directly match their regular meaning. What's not fine is people from those fields of study lecturing everyone else on how we're supposedly using it wrong. It's like biologists going around randomly yelling at people that tomatoes aren't vegetables whenever the subject comes up... except biologists don't do that.

> You can't be racist against white people

Of course you can. And it's really easy, too. You simply discriminate against their race (or, as you have described, their skin color).

In case you haven't figured it out by now, if a human being can be lumped into a race, then racism can be levelled towards that person. That's literally baked into the meaning of the word racism.

I disagree; racism is racism regardless of the class situation of the target. A small number of people have promoted the idea that if a class is not systematically oppressed, it can't be a target of racism, but that's wrong. It was picked up by the mainstream press and promoted as an idea for a while, but it's wrong.

But they are systematically oppressed. Just look at college affirmative action policies.

It absolutely is racist and dividing the country more and more. It’s not ok to hate white people.

Depends on the system in "systemic". I wouldn't dare argue too much about the U.S. but if you applied the same standards globally?... Well, "whites" aren't looking so oppressive on an individual scale, and on a national scale the "white" countries most oppressive aren't long for being viewed as "white" within a generation or two, regardless of how often "great replacement" conspiracy theories are debunked. See the ever-expanding definition of "white" in order to maintain the illusion.