Everyone’s a little bit racist, it’s true.

But everyone is just about as racist as you!

If we all could just admit

That we are racist a little bit,

And everyone stopped being so PC

Maybe we could live in Harmony!

New Yorkers may recognize those lyrics from the Broadway play “Avenue Q” — but perhaps they can be adapted to describe our current moment in American popular culture: Everything’s a little bit racist.

And, though you may not have noticed, this last week was an especially racist one.

First, the Web site Racked.com, generally a shopping site, took on the issue of racism on Instagram. Not racist images that people might post on Instagram, mind you, but the Instagram filters themselves.

Yes, the filters that we put on our pictures to give our life experiences the necessary rosy hue are racist, because the filters allegedly lighten skin tone.

A test of the filters on my own pale, freckled skin found the opposite to be true for me. Perpetua, Hudson, X-Pro II, Lo-Fi — all significantly darken my skin while only Reyes and Sierra lighten it.

Then, at a New Orleans City Council meeting, Rudy Mills, head of a group called Remove Racist Images, pushed for removal of the fleur-de-lis throughout the city.

The fleur-de-lis, an image of a lily, was originally a symbol of the French monarchy and is closely associated with Louisiana in general and New Orleans specifically.

It’s the logo for the NFL’s New Orleans Saints and was a symbol of strength for the city after Hurricane Katrina.

It’s been used for evil, sure — runaway slaves in Louisiana were branded with it — but it has a storied history and remains in many coats of arms throughout Europe.

Since then, writers in The Washington Post blamed Amy Schumer’s stand-up comedy for Dylann Roof’s murderous assault on a black church in Charleston; fictional civil-rights hero Atticus Finch is newly racist in “Go Set a Watchman,” Harper Lee’s follow-up to “To Kill a Mockingbird”; Kylie Jenner was accused of racism for her cornrow hairdo and Jimmy Carter declared that white people feel superior to people of color.

The fact is, America has come quite far on the issue of race.

When 87 percent of the population supports interracial marriage, up from 4 percent in 1958, that’s an undeniable and significant cultural shift.

Our demographics play a role in this.

In 1960, just a few years after the Supreme Court unanimously desegregated schools in Brown v. Board of Education, white people accounted for more than 85 percent of the population. Today, non-Hispanic whites account for about 63 percent.

What’s odd is that the perception of racism, and of its prevalence in our country, has only increased under President Obama.

You’d think that having a black president would make people stop looking for racism in every app, symbol and haircut.

But the opposite seems to be true. We’re more focused on uncovering racism than ever.

A typical example comes from Gallup. In March, the polling firm asked respondents how much they personally worry about race relations.

The percent of those who answered “a great deal” — 28 — was the highest it’s been since 2001 and up 10 points since before Obama’s election.

CNN had one explanation for the change.

In March, it reported: “As Barack Obama prepares to mark the march’s anniversary in Selma, Alabama, 39% of Americans say relations between blacks and whites have worsened since he took office, including 45% of whites and 26% of blacks. Just 15% of Americans say race relations have improved under Obama, while 45% say they have stayed about the same.”

From this, you could draw the conclusion that people are more worried about race relations because they think race relations are worse.

But there’s another explanation: Race relations are worse because Americans are more worried about the issue — that is, they’re looking for it everywhere.

Though this may sound like a contradiction, it’s not.

The less overt and institutional racism Americans encounter in their daily lives, the more those looking to “prove” America’s inherent racism have to dig for it.

We no longer have segregationists standing in the schoolhouse door. So Kylie Jenner’s braids must be racist, because something must be racist.

The real problem with such “everything is racist” hyper-awareness is that it minimizes the meaning of the word until it’s just background noise.

To state the obvious: If everything is racist, then nothing is racist and actual racism goes unchecked — or at least is more easily ignored or dismissed.

It becomes much harder to point out and prove institutional racism, for example, if we’re focusing on whether a 17-year-old reality star’s braids or a photo-sharing app’s filters are racist.

Save the “that’s racist” accusations for situations that actually warrant it.

Being vigilant against true bigotry — a worthwhile posture — should involve taking racism more seriously.