More and more with each passing year, thanks to the overuse of the term and the shifting of its definition. I don't hate people of other races. That used to be good enough. Now, I have to ignore the race of the men who raped my sister. I have to ignore the race of the men who beat my uncle until he slipped into a coma. I can't point out that black on white violent crime is several orders of magnitude larger than white on black violent crime.

And since I can't do any of that without being called a racist anyway, there's very little reason for me not to embrace the term with which I was branded.