This isn't the deep end anymore, this is the new normal.
In the past 20 years, Critical Race Theory has become the dominant philosophy in the Humanities in higher education. It is based on the idea that everything is a power struggle between classes, much like Marxism, except that the classes are divided by race and gender lines instead of economics. Individuals do not matter. Your defining characteristics are your skin color and your gender.
Racism has been re-defined to mean power + prejudice. Since white males have the most power in society, they are the biggest oppressors, and therefore the only ones capable of being racist. A black woman has no power in this society, and is systemically oppressed all her life, and therefore, if he or she says, "All white people are devils," she is not racist.
Oh, and if you thought being "color blind", i.e. treating people as individuals regardless of their skin color is virtuous, you are now wrong. Treating people as individuals ignores their "lived experience" as a person of color, which makes you a racist (assuming you're white, of course).
This is what has been taught in colleges for the last 15-20 years and is why you are seeing more and more of this coming from academics, journalists, and HR people (people from the Humanties). All the journalism complaining about the lack of "diversity" and "inclusiveness" in workplaces/movies/video games is driven by people whose primary way of looking at the world is along strict lines of race and gender.
Oh, and if you argue against this obviously racist and sexist ideology, *you* will be pilloried as a racist and sexist.