Why Do We Get So Worked Up Over ‘Racist’?

Go ahead, disown the word. There’s no denying its brutal reality.

Targets of a racist England? The Duke and Duchess of Sussex (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

“You need to calm down.” — Taylor Swift

I never thought I would quote Taylor Swift at the beginning of an article about racism, but I think her line actually works better here than it did when she used it in her recent pop single to shoehorn herself into the…