The majority of Americans have a literally black and white view of most issues concerning racism. The one-drop rule encodes the way we think; in North America, Tiger Woods is a “black” man, despite the fact that he’s got far more Asian ancestry than African. To people in the USA, Australian Aborigines are the same “race” as African Masai, and use of the word “Blackfella” will generally be misunderstood. (I’m not defending or extolling this, just pointing out that Australians probably see things differently than Usonians.) To many Americans, the only racism that really counts is that of “whites” towards “blacks” - bigotry directed at Koreans by non-whites is rarely considered newsworthy.
The subculture of computer programmers that Eric Raymond writes about as “our tribe” (which is fairly heavily represented on bOINGbOING) is overwhelmingly white, male, (a)theistically Abrahamic, and massively ignorant concerning privilege, poverty, and gender issues. Lack of personal experience with these issues frequently manifests as unpleasant Ayn Rand style libertarianism, but can also show up as a nauseating “political correctness”… which sometimes gets labeled (perhaps accurately) as concern trolling.
