I think you confuse these theories with blindess to supposed racial variance when actually it proposes a more acurate account of what race is even moreso than popoular politics even allow.

" how could these discriminatory actions be penalized in a society that doesn't officially recognize race?"

Our government can recognize racial ideologies just like any faith doctrine without accepting them- the problem in this country is that it imposes that race ideology on its people and when it comes to accountability it only holds the people responsible while the ideology lives on and is further enacted by a pervasively infected society.

If you were a jew and you went to get a job but a anti-semite wouldnt let you would the gpvernment need to take sides in the matter to determine that civil rights had been infringed on? certinly not, a supposedly objective body can distinguish itself from the beliefs of singular communities or opposing ideologies. Likewise does the American government need to beilieve in and foster race classification to admit the crimes that are being enacted in its name- of course not, but it will do just that if we dont cite them for the crime of imposing it by national order in the first place.

The difference with race ideology is that it bears no quantifiable measure- no substantial markings- it is not scientific by any means- it bears far less accuracy than ideas of culture and national origin, issues of heritage- it is substantiated primarily in presumptions and hidden agendas and ideas that just arent true. If thats the case then why is it being used as a factual/pragmatic means of a census, why is it being used to determine stratification of wealth and assistance among people?

Why are we using it to run this country- and then wondering why the country's "race relations" are so fucked up- here's a hint- cuz the idea of race was fucked up in the first place!

To answer your question race can be dealt with pragmatically in determining its effects on society and it should be. However items like the census and all racial quuantifications and statistical data are not pragmatic in that they can only bare out the evidence of a characterization that is implicitly demeaning and untrue.

If you continue to allow the government to presume that lie as truth then whatever race discrimination is being dealt width will continue to move us 1 step forward and two steps back as has been its consistent pattern for the last 500 years.

If you want to realize race and not be blind to it- then you have no choice but admit that it was an illbegotten and demeaning notion that bears no substantiating scientific or natural capacity. The government must back away from this ideology as it is demaning and false- and furthermore stop imposing the ideology as if it were irrefutable fact.

Whatever discrimination that takes place will still be dealt with in the absence of the "race paradigm" the key is understanding that that "race paradigm" is at the very root of the discrimination.

K