I agree with you, but it's important to realize that this new form of racism (and by extension, racism in general) doesn't focus on skin colour alone. The focus

I agree with you, but it's important to realize that this new form of racism (and by extension, racism in general) doesn't focus on skin colour alone. The focus is on the cultural traits that tend to correlate with skin colour and their implications given the context. If you group people by skin tone, sex, height, country of residence, or pretty much any other trait, you'll find that average lived experience differs in some way across groups. As a result, if you draw people mostly from one of these groups, say, white men, then this group's ideas, experiences, opinions, etc. are likely (of course, not guaranteed) to differ from the population average. As long as different people are different, this will remain true. In some contexts, some people decide that this non-representation is serious enough to warrant correction. This leads to what you call the new form of acceptable racism. This thinking is discriminatory by definition, since it assumes things about people based on their skin colour. And it becomes much less palatable if you replace "white men" with pretty much any other demographic. (It's interesting to consider why that is!) But if you know nothing else about the group, knowing their skin colour and, by extension, cultural backgrounds, can inform you about their likely biases. For example, a bunch of old white men probably won't understand the motivations, challenges, and needs in a population of young women of colour.