At what point do words like "racism" lose their meaning?

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I've heard of Latinos crying "racism," Muslims, Jews, Christians, of course blacks and whites, etc...

But think about it: What is a "race" exactly?

Do Latinos constitute a race?

If something derogatory is said against about Islam, how is the term "racism" applicable there?

Jews?

Is racism an all encompassing term for discrimination against ethnic groups, religious groups, and "racial" groups? If racism is used in such a broad stroke terminology, does its meaning suffer? Does the effect of using the term suffer so that if someone truly does suffer, their cries for help fall to deaf ears due to us all being desensitized to the concept of racism via dilution of its very meaning?
 
Also you must think about the porpler definition of racism

Does it mena that you must have institutional power?

Most wxperts thing so

For example

blacks can be bigrabroad
ed but nrabroad
racist since they hav eno real political powqr

whites can be racist since they hav emuch political pewr
 
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