The amount of women I've seen self-flagate themselves as "white latinas" over the years in the predominantly latino communities I've lived in never ceases to amaze me because the one thing they all had in common was that they simply were not white passing.

Some of these women were immigrants with accents, never would dream of living outside their ethnic enclave in either NY/Florida, and yet after 2016, which was the apex of the term "White Latino/Hispanic" being proliferated, they kept on.

The amount of them straight up saying "I have white privilege" was insane to me because not only had they never seen themselves as white before this, they had nothing but disparaging shit to say about White people anyway. Thrust into it all of a sudden.

I'm not being shady when I say them, nor me, completely passed for "white," and that standard has been continuously pushed, rewritten, and understood so differently by everyone.

I almost feel like they said they were white passing because they're ashamed they're mixed.

Saying I'm "white passing" is basically like you're admitting to the guilt of whiteness, so if someone criticizes your self identity, you can take it in so many ways. You're either morally reprehensible because you don't believe whiteness is so clearly defined...or...

You're practicing race science by saying "you don't look white," so interestingly you have this weird power struggle in identity here.

It's actually incredibly filled of self hatred. I can't look at myself in the mirror and think I'm completely "white"

Your existence is far more complicated, a very recent development, you shouldn't be able to explain it away so simply. That isn't to say there isn't any semblance of racial inequality in LatAm, of course there is.