Racism being something that only affects BIPOC people is extremely narrow-minded and as a person from an historically white ethnicity that was under the control of another white nation, someone needs to be extremely hypocritical to not recognize racism just because of the victims skin colour when the same conditions would be considered racism if the victim was BIPOC...
Acadians (or French Canadians in general), the Irish, Bosnians... Heck, what about German Jews under Hitler? You couldn't tell them from another white European in an anonymous crowd...