" I think we'd make more progress on things like this issue if we called it "environmental bias." Exactly THIS! Bias is easily understood as being possibly impersonal, a circumstance without a CURRENT intent. Whereas to the person on the street, "racism" means has a tinge of personal animus, no matter how much it's 'explained' and argued in nuanced terms. It's like white *privilege* which has a tinge of something unmerited. Or "defund the police" which nobody would be convinced wasn't about abolishing police departments.