Books have been written, movies made and college courses taught about white privilege. Denouncing the evils of whiteness indiscriminately allows people of all races, even white people like Robin DiAngelo and Tracie McMillan, to earn a very good living from hunting for white privilege.
Less discussed is ‘whiteless privilege’. Even when one of the biggest beneficiaries of whiteless privilege, Vice President Kamala Harris, has made that her identity. What race is Kamala? Kamala is at once black and Indian, and none of the above because what matters most is not what race she is, but what race she is not. By not being white, she is a person of color and thus whiteless.
Kamala has white ancestry by way of her father, but in a world where men can be women and women can be androgynous and can then march in pride parades as Androgynes for Gaza while wearing half-burkas, what you are matters much less than what you identify as and what you don’t identify as.
One of the most powerful women in the country, raised by a globe-trotting cancer doctor of Brahmin ancestry currently identifies as black because it allows her to cash in on unearned white guilt by way of a made up story of having been subjected to white supremacy as a little girl in Berkeley, California.
Whitelessness is defined by whiteness in the same way that all parasitic identities depend on a host identity. To be whiteless is to be anything but white. People of color, BIPOC and other ways of describing whitelessness are not truly races, but forms of opposition to whiteness. That is why minorities with actual histories of oppression can still be condemned as adjacent to whiteness.
These two poles reveal that in the critical race theory paradigm there are really only two races: whiteness and whitelessness, forever pitted in conflict and defined in opposition to one another. Black, Hispanic or Asian, already dubious categories, are subsumed into one of these political categories.