why do jews get a pass when it comes to racism?

I agree, it’s up to them. It would be bizarre, but of course it is up to them.

I’m pretty sure that if someone wanted to include atheists into Catholicism, they could do some very fine semantic parsing that enables it, just like the semantic parsing of the first commandment “I am the Lord your God” and the fourth commandment “I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me” that seems to make it OK for atheist Jews to be considered part of the Jewish religion.

Not that I endorse the various beliefs of the Orthodoxy, but on this issue I agree with them.