This assumption has been in operation for decades and is nothing new:

“People of color, as a social group, do not have the societal, institutional power to oppress white people as a group,” the training states. “An individual person of color abusing a white person – while clearly wrong, (no person should be insulted, hurt, etc.) is acting out a personal racial prejudice, not racism.”

The mealymouthed PR flak for U of W says:

I think the way in which this particular project was executed made more people feel excluded than included in these kinds of conversations and that’s the opposite of what we want.

The hivemind has no time for the individual. To them the individual is at all times operating under the abstract groups alleged assumptions.

This must be what it's like to think like an ant in an anthill, or a bee in a hive. But this disrespects ants and bees.