I suspect Shabana Mahmood would be one of the first to be loaded into a cattle car by the reactionaries, all the while furiously protesting that she is "one of the good ones."

Its ethnic and cultural grievance, all the way down. This illustrates the impotence of materialist strategies, the "kitchen table" issues.
For them, a brown skinned guy living next door IS their kitchen table issue, surpassing all others.

Its always this:
My kid is terrific and deserves that participation trophy, but all the other kids are delicate pampered snowflakes.

It reminds me of the gatekeeping and policing by cishet ppl, of the Correct Way To Be A Hetero Dude;
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBPm...

When you create an underclass of non-persons, stripped of rights, it becomes a feeding frenzy of grift and abuse.
Look at real life places like the Gulf kingdoms where immigrants are essentially a slave class.

I remember the speculation on the blogosphere about whether Trump molested Ivanka, and how certain respectable centrists insisted that topic be taboo.
It reminded me then, and more so today, about how these sorts of scandals- Weinstein, Cosby, Epstein- were taboo topics even when in plain view.