I always thought the accusation of "racism" was overblown, and I'm pretty sure the majority of people would agree. The word's been used to convince people that the Ku Klux Klan was hiding behind every corner, and that all it took was one person slighting a black person once to start a series of violent and horrific events that would have them put back in chains.
Joe Biden's words, not mine.
For me, the accusation was annoying. Any conversation that pertained to race was immediately dismissed, and fingers were plugged into ears if the subject wasn't approached with either extreme caution or reverence. Skin color was a holy subject one must never discuss without the proper measure of obeisance.
I don't know when the accusation truly started to lose steam, but I can be sure that it became pretty obvious it didn't have the effect it once did after Elon Musk bought Twitter and freed it from gatekeepers. Suddenly, the people screaming racist things at everyone weren't so loud. The media's "everyone who isn't in agreement with us is racist" schtick started to lose steam, now that they were being mocked at every turn for their hyperbolic race-baiting.
From there, it's all been downhill for the accusation. People had clearly had enough of the word being used to destroy and manipulate. Black Lives Matter had definitely beaten the term to death. Nowadays, it seems that accusation is a fast way to lose credibility, not empower you, and make your opponents into automatic bad guys like it once did.
But now I'm seeing the term reach a real breaking point.
As I commented on Monday, a massive online war broke out about race, and this time, it wasn't just between the left and the right; it was between Republicans and conservatives. As I reported, a video from the University of Texas showed the end of its game against Ohio. When the camera spun around, it showed a crowd almost entirely composed of Indian males.
Now, clearly, this was just one section, and the majority of the University of Texas is not composed of Indian migrants, but the number of them was vast and deep enough that it caused many who were already concerned about the H-1B visa problem to lose it. The comments started pouring in, especially from Texans, and these Texans were greeted with accusations of racism, not just from the left, but from fellow conservatives and even Republican elected officials.
As a Texan who lives in one of the areas being affected by the massive influx of Indians and Middle Easterners, I couldn't help but find myself siding with the people speaking out against this immigration issue, only to find the accusations of racism being lobbed against them for it, making me angry personally. I wrote this post to hopefully explain that this concern wasn't racism; it was more about an unwanted, unlooked-for cultural shift.
I've been trying really hard not to comment too much on politics lately, but this has got me riled up because I live in one of those towns experiencing massive cultural shift due to unfettered influx of South Asian and Middle-Eastern immigration.
— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) September 14, 2026
When you import any large group…
And, you guessed it. I was called racist. There was no racism involved, but I was still greeted with the accusation.
To be honest, I expected it, but it did prove something: that the word has no meaning anymore. When the accusation hit me, I honestly didn't care. I didn't feel the need to defend myself or point out why my position has nothing to do with racism. I was perfectly content with having the accusation lobbed at me because, in my mind, the person doing the accusing seemed automatically stupid to me.
Stupid because they didn't give any critical thought to the concepts I laid out. They just saw I was saying something about why this kind of immigration is bad, and immediately associated it with a hatred for a skin color.
And if the accusation is coming from inside the Republican House, then how much less seriously are we going to take it? If even our elected officials who said they're listening to us have proven they aren't listening to us, and even accusing us of something the left usually does when it's trying to pull a fast one, then how is that going to make us care about the accusation at all?
I think racism exists. Spend 24 hours on X, and you'll see it does, and in various forms. But I think we've reached a point where our greater society just doesn't care, because the accusation has been used on innocent people so much that it means absolutely nothing.
