Is it more likely that claiming the word 'women' doesn't include women of colour isn't a racist assumption of SC's, but a deliberate attempt to paint women as racist by claiming that they are the ones excluding women of colour?
This is a regularly used racist trope by gender ideologists - "transwomen are women like black women are women" - often found also with "like lesbian women are women" and "like disabled women are women"
It's never accompanied by a claim that women exclude these groups of women though, but the underlying assumption that they are excluded from normal womanhood by their very nature (presumably this is because most of these males claiming womanhood are white, straight and able-bodied and this then becomes also their default for women).
Having watched Cook's interview several times now, to Cook saying women of colour aren't included in the word women is a completely normal assertion. What I suspect happened here is that this beloved trope goes unchallenged so very often that Cook didn't think twice about saying this because Cook truly believes Cookself to be in the same category as black women.
Now that this ideology is getting dragged into the light of day I suspect many more people will start to wake up. It truly is a toxic ideology - I had a Twitter conversation with a fully paid-up member of the genderati and they made offensive statements on
-race
-homosexuality
-lesbianism
-age
-women
-intersex people
-transsexuals
-scientists
They couldn't argue their points at all because they were almost entirely unsupported by any actual, deep knowledge or understanding of any issues. Maybe they're so used to affirming each other, their arguments just aren't tested?
Anyway, despite having no counter-arguments to my calm, logical, fact-based and properly referenced points, they held onto their deep-seated beliefs all the same. It really does seem to be quasi-religious in nature.