Because some journalists, who tend to be white people from affluent backgrounds, like to continuously perform racial self-loathing to signal that they are not t

Because some journalists, who tend to be white people from affluent backgrounds, like to continuously perform racial self-loathing to signal that they are not the "wrong kind" of affluent white person. Actually, that's more of a side benefit. The real reason they do it is because they enjoy racial stereotyping (cf. Avenue Q's "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist"). White-bashing is a safe outlet for that urge. If it were still socially acceptable to stereotype Asians as soulless, interchangeable technicians, they'd do that too. White-bashing is also the socially sanctioned way to signal that you're racially conscious. This qualifies you for elite white people jobs like the Harvard admissions committee, where it's important that everyone have the mindset needed to limit the representation of the racial groups considered undesirable. (Note that Harvard does not consider white a racial or ethnic group; only non-whites are racial/ethnic. You can see this from their yearly report of admissions by race, where whites are not mentioned and the racial percentages mysteriously add up to only about 55%: https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/admissions-statistics https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/admissions-statistics)