(Nah, course it doesn’t! Yet it will happily recognise racism as a real and very troubling phenomenon, as per the link.)
Just for shits and giggles, I changed the references from race/racism to ones of sex/sexism in the title/caption/opening lines from the article and it still works perfectly well:
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If we can’t call sexism by its name, equality will remain a meaningless buzzword
As many women’s experience in life shows, challenging inflammatory language can be hazardous
‘Inflammatory language is increasingly the norm, yet the word sexism remains muffled under a curious omerta.’
Politicians accuse each other of being “cowardly” “collaborators” who “surrender”, “betray and “capitulate”. Commentators on television warn of “riots”. Inflammatory language is increasingly the norm in public life. Yet one word remains muffled under a curious omerta. Women everywhere have been the latest to discover that describing something as “sexist”, even in a measured way, can get you into a lot of trouble.
For many women in largely male institutions, this is a familiar prohibition that works to shut down much-needed discussion and create a repressive and demoralising silence.
Sexism is that strange phenomenon, apparent everywhere and apparently nowhere. People believe that not “seeing” sex or being “sex-blind” is progressive when it is merely evasive. What might happen if we took as given that, after six centuries of patriarchal rule, it would be astounding if most of us – including women – were not shaped by the sexist hierarchies put in place? The term “male power” may invoke images of Gileadean Eyes publicly punishing women on the streets but it actually refers to an entrenched system of sexist domination which once justified marital rape and women not being allowed to own property, the legacies of which still shape economic, political and social orders, particularly in the west...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/08/racism-diversity-naga-munchetty-bbc-inflammatory-language