It's easy to picture all sorts of specific bad things that might really be represented somewhere among a broader group we disagree with on some kind of ideolog

It's easy to picture all sorts of specific bad things that might really be represented somewhere among a broader group we disagree with on some kind of ideological grounds, or, in your case, something they might do in the future! It's not useful, though, to describe these pictures every time a topic arises that just happens to be about that group (the group in this case being academics studying something that has to do with racism).