“The word RACISM would be removed from the author’s note altogether” doesn’t seem like an honest way to summarize the proposed edit. They didn’t propose to edit

“The word RACISM would be removed from the author’s note altogether” doesn’t seem like an honest way to summarize the proposed edit. They didn’t propose to edit out the frank descriptions of the trauma of Japanese internment, or the conclusion that it was inexcusable. They struck out an unrelated political rant about how Americans are all racist and various modern policies the author doesn’t like result from that. I guess the “everything is politics” meme has reached fixation in the author’s circles, but it’s baffling that the author would see “let’s not have an aside calling the readers racist over food deserts” as a Faustian bargain which fatally compromises her message.