Is there a linguistic solution to the misuse of the word ‘racism’? Under so-called Critical Race Theory almost everything is racist. And if you can’t see that, you are suffering from unconscious racism because you are part of a systemically racist society. In fact, your real problem is probably that you’re white! One of the main authors of the New York Times’ 1619 Project Nikole Hannah-Jones has written in a letter to a newspaper: ‘The white race is the biggest murderer, rapist, pillager and thief of the modern world’.