My pleasure. I think that removing intent from the way people think about racism is one of the most disastrous things that things liike CRT has done. Of course, there is such a thing as systemic racism, where intent isn't the point, but it's a terrible mistake to think in these terms at the level of indiviiduals.

The motivation of some of the people at the Capitol was undoubtedly white supremacy. No question that some were racists and wanted a racist in the White House.

Others didn’t want Biden. Others believed Trump would conjure “clean coal” out of thin air. Others thought their problems would be solved by that “big, beautiful wall”. Others really were stupid enough to believe the election had been stolen. Slathering all of these people with the same brush of white supremacy makes it more difficult to identify white supremacy when we see it. We become numb to it because we see it everywhere. We become convinced that the answer is ALWAYS white supremacy.

And because of this, we get worse at solving problems because we've destroyed our tools for analysing them and interpreting nuance.

You make a good observation about not seeing "black" behaviour, and it's the reason why I used the term "multiracial blackness". Because people haven't gotten so comfortable (or more accurately have learned to be uncomfortable) with thinking of black people as a monolith, the term "blackness" hits the ear a little differently. It gives people room to see the idiocy of it. It's exactly as idiotic when we use the term "whiteness"