Whiteness is basically just money (and equally abstract)

So-called ‘white’ identity is rooted in the same imaginary value as money, and to admit that each of these are groundless would be an initial step in restoring the species and its relationship to the earth, and grounding this relationship in something other than antagonism and exploitation. But when one’s imaginary identity is rooted in a monetary value derived from antagonism and exploitation, these are not so easy to give up. Whiteness believes that conflict and antagonism are essential to human being, and though it is not necessary to believe this, the belief is so widespread that it will probably have to be seen to its end. It is probably only when the belief becomes concrete (i.e., when conflict, antagonism, exploitation, and unnecessary precarity realize death at a much greater scale) that whiteness as a popular ideology will reach its end. This is why I say that whiteness is the posture that precedes extinction. For its program to be widely disseminated, intensified, and seen to its logical end, great numbers of people will have to die. This is what happens when life is perceived in a broken mirror reflecting an impossible object. To prove the object’s possibility, that which stands in the way of its realization must be eliminated. Of course, the true obstacle to the realization of whiteness is not the presence of those who do not belong to it, or those who do not embody its idea, but the simple fact that it is nothing but an idea — an act of thought that cannot be materialized as anything other than a thought.