I hate the fucking term "Whiteness". Especially as used by Americans, both left and right. Being European, or of European decent, doesn't automatically make us buddies or similar. And despite us all being pale we're divergent culturally and we all kind of hate each other. There is no fucking cultural concept of "Whiteness". A Scot is different from a Frenchman who is different to the New Zealander who is different to the Swede who is different from the German. Irish hate the English despite kinda looking the same, and vice versa, and both proudly cling to cultural identities and traditions almost in spite of the other European cultural identities that exist. That concept of "Whiteness" is a unifying trait is nothing but a stupid excuse that gives permission for some fucking Liberal arts major tell the South African farmer that they need to be spoken down to as apparently being white makes the two culturally the same. It is a fucking cop out.
And Hasan is kind of proving my point here with that whole American concept of "Whiteness" as it allows him (and others of ambiguous European ethnicity) to slip in and out of being "White" when it is convenient for them to do so. Americans have fucked up concepts regarding race and culture, and the world would be a lot better off if they just accepted they're American instead of putting a racial qualifier on what type of Yank they are (for example Irish-American, Armenian-American, Italian-American, German-American etc.).