Bouie here is commenting on the single stupidest take on race and racism you will read all year - well, not ‘read’ so much as ‘start reading and then flip the desk’.

In which I am described as an “ardent devotee” of Coates as if I am incapable of independent thought. https://t.co/c3uPjvKgBa

— Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie) October 16, 2017

Shorter: Ta-Nehisi Coates is just the same as Richard Spencer, because both point to whiteness as a special, powerful, mystical thing.

Except of course that Coates is saying that’s how our society treats it, and Spencer is saying it’s literally true.