No one “became white”, although the Irish always were just, non-preferred Whites. They, and Slavic Jews and Arabs like me, East Indians, became more powerful minorities, but are still minorities. Just as you are arbiters of your own experience, we are for our own, aren’t we? Please don’t misrepresent our experience by telling us we ARE something. Or turn off and not listen when we tell you our experiences.

Yours is different than ours and does not need me to validate it and of course we need to listen to you on yours, but this is a big empathetic hole here for you to label us this way and likely dismiss our experience because yours is worse.

Will you become a privileged class? Check back in 50 years, it’s too soon to say. I think you’re actually on your way there, coming from my knowledge as a political analyst trained by a PolySci. Especially now that the population in the US is shifting, I’m predicting and many of us are, a more equal society, but part of that is not naming others’ experiences for them.

Being called a racist is almost always followed by swear words or “calling out” for things that are inferred from a response or from a tiny slice of who we are, (sound familiar) so, no, being called a racist as opposed to having a racist view about one thing is definitely being called bad person.