Which means “patriarchy and white supremacy” are not “inextricably intertwined.” Exhibit A for this not being race determined: how we keep redefining “whiteness” in America based on whoever is rich. To the point, today, that White + Asian is a common category. (Or how we cleave Hispanic from non-Hispanic Whites.)

Patriarchy is intertwined with wealth and power, but in a demonstrably extricable way. Conflating it with racism is a terrific way to halt any progress towards dismantling it, and for good reason.

Chinese, Japanese, or Hispanic, or Middle Easterners would never consider themselves "white". It is a term, where people want to lump U.S. whites together in the U.S. wholly as bad, and suggest they're evil in the U.S. and now globally.

People in the U.S. just happen to be historically white, just like Chinese just happen to be historically of Chinese descent, etc.

Ashkenazi Jews (the in group) tend to vote more liberal than Sephardic/Mizrahi Jews. Israeli Arabs parties, while associated with the left due to their position on Palestine, are extremely conservative (e.g. pushing for conversion therapy).

There were Mongols, Kush / Egyptian in Africa, Inca, Navajo in North America, etc etc - pulling from large and small groups. Even within a group, the India Caste system did the same within a population