Doug,
Yeah, I know, but I had to put my two-cents in. The answer, I believe, is yes. Words lile "anti-racism," "racist," "racism," etc., imply and impart a certain reality to race. They do not, explicitly or implitly, entail a challenge to race or its most dangerous by-product, the "white" race, as a social construct.
That said, I know that it is becoming increasingly popular in leftish circles to point to race as a social construct and that is, all in all, a good thing. But the language lags far behind the (very slowly) changing analysis. The terms "anti-white," and "anti-whiteism," along with few others, resolve a lot of the conceptual, terminological and analytical problems generated by the anti-racist paradigm but creates new political problems. Most of them involve "white" lefties showing their true colors (sorry) when encouraged to committ racial suicide as a critical part of the struggle against capital; others involve Black radicals who refuse, for any number of reasons, to acknowledge how they as anti-racist participate in the reproduction of whiteness by working within a tradition that reinforces race and, therefore, the relative "racial" status quo.
Later,
Niles DC New Abolitionists