people on /pol/ have literally no insitutional power, while communists are literally growing day by day and having their garbage spread everywhere

This is what almost nobody understands. What makes racism different from any other opinion is when it becomes normalized, and anti-whiteness is de facto law in most of the West right now.

You can hate blacks or Asians or whatever as hard as you want, but nothing will happen. Your hate doesn't matter except maybe on a scale of one or two people. Anti-white hate, on the other hand, has sweeping real world consequences because it's frequently acted on and usually allowed.