Are White anti-racists racists who like Black people?

Reply on New York Times blog on July 18 to comment by V.B. Zarr of Erehwon, July 15, in “Reader’s Picks,” to opinion essay by Daniel Bergner, “White fragility is everywhere, but does anti-racism training work?” July 15, 17, 2002:

Remember the line, "Philo-semites are anti-semites who like Jews"? Maybe this virulent anti-racism is, by affirming the same colonialist stereotyping of categorical differences between "white" and "black" styles of thinking, is just white racism in reverse.

It is sold to the same demographic, with the consolations of self-hatred replacing pride in their own culture distorted by binary categories associated with race. It's what Hegelians used to call "abstract negation." Corporate office workers who are not members of a protected minority class had better watch their rear with great fear and concern, because the companies whom DiAngelo works for may examine every nuance of anything you say, protecting itself from lawsuits at the expense of the heightened vulnerability of employees. For micro-oppressions are micro-transgressions.

Bureaucratic corporations and government agencies have a profound tendency to solve problems by hammering out the right discourse and then enforcing its use. The internal governance of the corporate, government agency, and university world is an anti-democratic administrative one that turns on guilt by attribution. Neoliberal capitalist police state conservatism with radical affects and face.

There are two strategies on race: either to change institutions and practices, distributions of wealth, and particularly the uses of property's antithesis, crime. Or, police, punish, and self-punish, attitudes and speech.