In some people's eyes, there's a certain fairness to lowering outcomes for everyone. Racism IS bullying. You can have an individual racist who bullies you, or you can have society be the racist who bullies you. Unfortunately, you can also, and often do, have both. It's also unfortunate, but just a fact, that some people, usually privileged people, won't understand getting the short end of the stick until it happens to them.

While I might take issue with shutting down a program to make a point, I grew up as a Jewish guy in the 1980s and faced racism and bullying on the regular. It truly made my life a living hell sometimes. As an adult, I've had to deal with things like openly racist co-workers. Now of course there's all the recent suggestions that I'm enabling genocide somewhere just by _being_ Jewish and/or for supporting Israel. Whenever someone says something like "The Jews...", it's probably racism. It feels like it.

In my opinion, the root of all these problems is a small bunch of bad actors who think it's okay to engage in antisocial behavior. They then convince others that it's okay to do the same thing, whether actively or by example. Society would be so much better off if people with antisocial tendencies could somehow be convinced to be pro-social.