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None of my outrage is fake. I have some reading for you, because I suspect my perspective is confusing without a little academic foundation:
https://www.amazon.com/Diversity-Paradox-Immigration-Twenty-First-Century/dp/0871545136
http://www.russellsage.org/research/post-racial-society-or-diversity-paradox
The best research (above) shows that the most effective way to reduce discrimination is to gradually increase the circle of what is considered an in-group. I am outraged that the left was complicit in restricting the circle. Nobody went, "Wait, Arabs are Caucasian and Caucasian are white" or anything like that. Note, these arguments are a bit disingenuous if you don't believe in race, but the important part is undermining WNs. The fact that "white" is even a commonly used label is itself a concession to WNs, and we won't be able to make completely coherent arguments before we back out of this paradigm. The left ceded ground to literal WNs and let them control the definition of one of the most important designations in our society. There's a reason Arabs all mark white in the census, yet in recent times they've been repeatedly described by the left as "brown".
Social progress, if we're going to engage in it, will eventually end the categories of "brown", "yellow", etc. They are meaningless categories and carry no information. The left isn't going to tear down the entire institution of racism in one fell swoop. Given that, one has to wonder why the left's central project is not expanding the circle. Is it because it reduces their political coalition? Maybe, maybe not. Either way the left is still a stooge trapped in the paradigm of white supremacy.
I'm mixed and identify as white like Obama identifies as black. Half my family are Christian Republicans and the other half is white. Apparently it is very common with Asians/Indians and to a lesser extent Latinos with mixed ancestry to identify as white. Maybe you just don't notice?
There's a book which corroborates what I am saying with data: https://www.amazon.com/Diversity-Paradox-Immigration-Twenty-First-Century/dp/0871545136