Some labels get all their power from connotation. If being "racist" weren't evil, no one would be attaching the word to anyone. But connotations follow something like an inverse square law. The more things their carrier word covers, the less intense their effect. The more ways one can be "racist," the less the sting of the label. When denying one is racist becomes racism - that's the wonderful Kafka trap the woke mob calls "fragility" - the word just stops mattering.

All I ask from these word-killers is that they suggest another word I can use for the people that most of us think of as racists. I want to put Herr Hitler in a special ring of Hell, but the one he's been assigned is now full of white people who aren't doing enough to undo the past. Suggestions welcome.