If you find yourself reaching for arguments about “multiracial whiteness” to explain why there are non-white people who think and act differently than you’d expect them to, you should at least *consider* the possibility that race can’t explain everything https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/15/understand-trumps-support-we-must-think-terms-multiracial-whiteness/

You should also consider that you’re giving way too much power to “whiteness,” which becomes the force behind really everything. Non-whites can’t even make their own mistakes without it somehow deracinating them and actually being the fault of omnipotent whiteness.

It’s so insanely condescending. Non-whites can’t just be islamophobic, xenophobic, intolerant of radical black politics, or just plain stupid. They have to lose their racial/ethnic authenticity and actually become “white” in the process of espousing these views.

I wrote this in 2017 but if feels much more relevant today: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/opinion/ta-nehisi-coates-whiteness-power.amp.html