Sorry, but you can't make a thing racist by choosing to be offended by it.
The peanut gallery is where Howdy Doody's young fans sat. What it was before that is no more relevant than what "call a spade a spade" meant to the Greeks.
Russia is run by thugs. Get over it.
Being sold down the river means being treated like a slave. The expression is a recognition of how bad slavery was; it is not "racist" in any way, shape, or form.
"Moron" was for a long time - maybe still is - a clinical term for a certain level of mental disability. Moron, imbecile, and idiot, in increasing order of disability, were technical terms. They have all been adopted into vernacular English to mean someone silly enough to think they are racist.