"I would like to briefly explain what I believe these people mean when they talk about capital-W “Whiteness”."
"So first, “Whiteness” here refers to a hierarchical power structure in which white-presenting people have privileges non-white people do not."
Well... that's more what they mean by so-called "White supreemism" or "systemic racism." I get what you're saying, though -- the way that they're employing the term "multiracial whiteness" in this context is meant to be nearly synonymous with so-called "internalized racism" (see also the closely-related Marxist trope of "false consciousness").
But this broader application of the recently-reified concept of "whiteness" seems to be something of a recent twist. The "whiteness" canard has typically been deployed as a cheap rhetorical trick to reframe hatred for the indigenous peoples of Europe as hatred for a vague abstraction/ ideology (this meaning is perhaps most evident in the notorious "abolish the White race" rants of early "whiteness studies" polemicist Noel Ignatiev). The underlying "reasoning" goes something like this:
>White identity is a "toxic" social construct which is entirely based on oppression and persecution of any and all non-Whites who happen to live in proximity to proto-Whites. This persecutive process enables proto-Whites to develop and strengthen their "whiteness."
>Any recognition of collective White interests is thus inherently wrong and evil because it further reinforces "whiteness"
>So any form of common identity among the autochthonous peoples of Europe and their diaspora must be completely deconstructed/ destroyed
>But this process of inciting anti-White hatred among non-Whites -- and inculcating Whites with self-hatred -- is totally NOT based entirely on anti-White hatred, because reasons
On an individual level, this framing of "whiteness" is meant to hold out the false hope that if you renounce your "whiteness" with enough vehemence and apparent sincerity; if you manage to become truly self-hating, you will no longer be targeted as a toxically privileged "racist." This, for example:
"Whiteness is a term developed by ideological parasites in order to dupe White liberals into believing that they can attack their history/identity/being in the abstract without personal loss. The end goal of "deconstructing Whiteness" is a total dispossession of Whites everywhere."
As an aside, the standard dogma seems to be that non-White identities, while also "socially constructed," lack the inherently evil aura that is so tightly adherent to "whiteness." But it's not difficult to find claims that non-White racial identities are not only morally "better" than White identity; they are somehow more "real"/ organic as well. Just do a search for "Ta-Nehisi Coates Black bodies" or "Ta-Nehisi Coates people who believe themselves to be White" and you'll see what I mean...
"I would like to briefly explain what I believe these people mean when they talk about capital-W “Whiteness”."
"So first, “Whiteness” here refers to a hierarchical power structure in which white-presenting people have privileges non-white people do not."
Well... that's more what they mean by so-called "White supreemism" or "systemic racism." I get what you're saying, though -- the way that they're employing the term "multiracial whiteness" in this context is meant to be nearly synonymous with so-called "internalized racism" (see also the closely-related Marxist trope of "false consciousness").
But this broader application of the recently-reified concept of "whiteness" seems to be something of a recent twist. The "whiteness" canard has typically been deployed as a cheap rhetorical trick to reframe hatred for the indigenous peoples of Europe as hatred for a vague abstraction/ ideology (this meaning is perhaps most evident in the notorious "abolish the White race" rants of early "whiteness studies" polemicist Noel Ignatiev). The underlying "reasoning" goes something like this:
>White identity is a "toxic" social construct which is entirely based on oppression and persecution of any and all non-Whites who happen to live in proximity to proto-Whites. This persecutive process enables proto-Whites to develop and strengthen their "whiteness."
>Any recognition of collective White interests is thus inherently wrong and evil because it further reinforces "whiteness"
>So any form of common identity among the autochthonous peoples of Europe and their diaspora must be completely deconstructed/ destroyed
>But this process of inciting anti-White hatred among non-Whites -- and inculcating Whites with self-hatred -- is totally NOT based entirely on anti-White hatred, because reasons
On an individual level, this framing of "whiteness" is meant to hold out the false hope that if you renounce your "whiteness" with enough vehemence and apparent sincerity; if you manage to become truly self-hating, you will no longer be targeted as a toxically privileged "racist." This, for example:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3b4k79/toxic-whiteness-everyday-feminism-sandra-kim-interview
Or, as Dr, Andrew Joyce puts it:
"Whiteness is a term developed by ideological parasites in order to dupe White liberals into believing that they can attack their history/identity/being in the abstract without personal loss. The end goal of "deconstructing Whiteness" is a total dispossession of Whites everywhere."
As an aside, the standard dogma seems to be that non-White identities, while also "socially constructed," lack the inherently evil aura that is so tightly adherent to "whiteness." But it's not difficult to find claims that non-White racial identities are not only morally "better" than White identity; they are somehow more "real"/ organic as well. Just do a search for "Ta-Nehisi Coates Black bodies" or "Ta-Nehisi Coates people who believe themselves to be White" and you'll see what I mean...
whether controlled or from incompetence, it's a demolition, and i don't think it can be stopped.