I already know this S.O. but this still doesn’t answer the actual question I was asking.

If to not identify as white is as you say disingenuous and dangerous, but as the OP says to identify as white is irredeemable, what can one self identify as?

Or is whiteness something that you shouldn’t self identify as and only others can identify you as?

I mean according to you immigrants who achieve the American Dream in one generation are also white, which would mean a lot of Asian and Indian people, even African immigrants are now “white".

So again, if this category is something that one who isn’t a descendent of slaves can’t identify as other than, but we simultaneously are told that self identifying as white is irredeemably racist what can you identify as?

No one has answered this question so far.

Or is the answer “you’re always going to be irredeemably racist so don’t even try to escape that".