The White Liberal as a Ghost God

Elizabeth Warren's desire to be a Native American isn't unusual, in fact the idea of rejecting one's roots to be made anew is a fairly common religious idea. Christianity's concept of baptism is an obvious example of that. It's a ceremony that's a washing away or symbolic death in the plane of the fallen corrupt world and rebirth in the church-world and its society.

The white liberal, the baizuo, conception of rebirth might be unique. The baizuo rejects the mainstream society on behalf of who they perceive as abject outcasts, not to join those outcasts or even meet with them in passing, but to rule over them as a Ghost God. They have empathy for the plight of some imaginary people to become their savior.