“This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up . . . . the limbic brain inside a right-winger or Republican or conservative or your average white power activist, the limbic brain is much larger in their head space than in a reasonable person, and it’s pushing against the frontal lobe.”
— Garofalo speaking to Keith Olberman

Hmmm, I’m confused. I’m not sure whether a majority of whites voted for Obama. So how am I supposed to know if I’m still white?

The mean green left world view is that they are an Avant Garde that speaks for, and protects, entire groups, especially “victim” groups, like women and minorities. This idea is the source of their moral authority and the justification for their use of collectivist tactics.

Implicitly this depends on the idea that there is a monolithic “will of the people” to be protected and implemented.

Therefore prominent people from victim groups who oppose the mean green party line cannot be admitted to be from those groups because this attacks the core justification for collectivism: a monolithic world view of the people within that group.

The result of this are nonsensical attacks: Sarah Palin is not a woman, Clarence Thomas isn’t black, etc etc etc No matter how absurd these statements are per se, they must be made because the alternative is to admit a fundamental problem with collectivist ideology.