"White" Used As A Pejorative
So much of this neo-racism (Rav Arora's term for "anti-racism") is so ugly and insulting to the people it proports to be protecting.

Great piece by Angel Eduardo at Newsweek about his experience. Here's his picture, which has some relevance -- as it suggests he is probably not, say, an Ashkenazi Jew or from a long line of Welsh families:

Eduardo, who is, in fact, Dominican, was often told he didn't "act Dominican":

Today, I still find myself called "white" as a pejorative, often to silence or shame me for speaking heresies. A recent example is instructive: While filling a sign-up form for a workshop, I noticed that the question of my race featured a blank field rather than the usual multiple choice. I took the opportunity to proudly write in "human," and shared this anecdote on Twitter. The response was telling.

"Funny how we still know exactly what race this person is," wrote one woman in response.

"One of my favorite facts from answering psychology surveys," another woman replied, "is the knowledge that in this instance, 'Human' is always coded by researchers as 'white,' since only white people ever write that."

Of course, they didn't feel the need to find out whether I was actually "white" or not. After all, the necessary evidence was in what I had written. It was inconceivable to those women that anyone voicing that sentiment could possibly be "black" or "brown."

The idea that race--specifically, blackness--should entail a certain ideology or viewpoint and that veering from that viewpoint is a sign of unfortunate whiteness is, sadly, a common one. In a since-deleted tweet, New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones insisted that "there is a difference between being politically black and being racially black"--a sentiment later echoed by then-presidential candidate Joe Biden, who said in an interview with the popular radio show The Breakfast Club, "If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black." Most recently, a Los Angeles Times story called Larry Elder, a conservative black radio host and gubernatorial candidate, "the black face of white supremacy."

This penchant for taking away people's blackness if they don't agree with your politics is pernicious, a cynical gatekeeping that's as rampant as it is deplorable.

I call it the One Thought Rule: Disagree with the orthodoxy and your "of color" card gets revoked. Toe the line or your very being will be called into question by the ideological powers that be.

...I, for one, opt out. I'm not "white," but I'm not "black" or "brown," either. I am human, and I will proudly say so when prompted. I will not toe that ideological line. I refuse it, and I refuse its imposition upon me.

As for my "of color" card, you can have it. It's meaningless to me anyway.

No doubt I will be pilloried for what I've written here. I'll be told as I have been countless times before that I may reject race but I'll be racialized anyway by a white supremacist America. To that I say that yes, racism exists, even though race doesn't; but I don't need to believe in race to fight racism any more than I need to believe in God to fight religious dogmatism. Union is my project; division is not, and I refuse to divide myself from you--or for you.

I'm free from that nonsense.

And the best part about not being in any club or tribe? Now, everyone is in mine.

He basically says what I say in "Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck": that we are all what I call "co-humans."

Neo-racism, on the other hand, isn't about progress but regression and shaming and unearned power over others through the divisiveness of the new secular religion of so-called "anti-racism."