Is it unreasonable to suppose that everyone, who has not been ideologically (self-)indoctrinated to do the opposite, will naturally tend to identify with and favour people most similar to themselves, their family, extended family and super-extended family (i.e. their own race)?

Of course it's not unreasonable, and is perfectly acceptable - unless you happen to be an ethnic European, i.e. white, in which case it is "racist". At least, that is the message that keeps coming across to me from Guardian articles and threads, such as this.

I am white and would like to be able to identify with my own, European, race (its shared culture and history) - just as members of any other race can identify with theirs - without being branded a "racist".

Surely that must be possible, if it is done in a civilized, non-offensive, non-racist fashion . . . ?

Just as being anti-nuclear energy was once obligatory to being "green", it seems that condemnation as "racist" of any sense or expression of native European (white) identity is obligatory to being leftwing, liberal or "progressive".

This was, no doubt, a response to the insane racial doctrines of the Nazis (the antithesis of everything leftwing, liberal or "progressive"), but has now become a straightjacket of political correctness and opportunism, don't you think?

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