It's OK to use words in technical ways as long as you're transparent about the nonstandard definitions. What's fallacious is to deceive by secretly going back and forth between definitions, to avoid certain implications. That's equivocation.
Wokesters seem to be broadening the definition of "racism" to include microaggressions. That's an application of hyperfeminine (matriarchal) overprotectiveness in the urban populations, an overcompensation for the hypermasculine sociopathy of the Republican Party.
I actually address the question of "racism's" definition in 'Beyond the Shibboleth of "Racism."' And I talk more about the feminine and masculine cultures in the second article below.