Hi,

I think it is important to claim the implications of our actions. When you say you did not intend to accuse me, that seems to imply that you found my response defensive. Yet you did not actually take the time to respond to my response, which I attempted as a real answer to what I hoped was a real attempt to engage.

I am concerned about your evocation in this context of your biracial Jewish friends, and your belief that articulating their private ethnic identities to a stranger on the internet is just or fair. How does this benefit the conversation? Would your friends wish to be used as a rhetorical ploy in this way?
Do you keep a catalogue of your Brown friends to use in this manner?
Your framing of my response as an attempt to convince you of the “legitimacy” or “accuracy” of my claim is simply not accurate. I laid out the approach I take to racial politics. I cannot be responsible for what you personally believe.