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It's a question of semantics. I'd not call bigotry or discrimination against a particular group "racism" when the group in question is not a race. But that doesn't mean this chauvinism is any less real or problematic.
You can call it "chauvinism" (although that term originally referred to sexism), "bigotry" or something like that.
Some social scientists created a model calling that kind of bigotry "group-focused enmity", which includes racism, sexism, homophobia, ethnic and nationalistic chauvinism, xenophobia and so on.
All true. But since us lay men are short of being social scientists, the correct terms for these things elude us. My use of the term "racism" here is for the benefit of those that are unfamiliar with the correct jargon.