White supremacists don't necessarily believe that whiteness is inherently superior to blackness (the existence of black scholars and white numbskulls proves this).
They also believe that their culture is superior to black culture.
Correct, believing some races are inherently superior does get you labeled a white supremacist because there's functionally not much of a difference between the two.
You're including the alt right on an argument about white supremacists. Could you perhaps answer my questions without taking about the alt right, who aren't being discussed by anyone but you.
White supremacists also advocate violence against other races often to subjugate them. This is highly similar to isis.
Or are you claiming that all members of the alt right are white supremacists?
How can you draw the distinction however? Couldn't the white supremacist claim another reason? (for instance, white supremacists often bridge their religious beliefs with their racist views)
Everything that doesn't agree with Critical Race Theory is white supremacist. That's why when black people kill Asians in the US it's because of white supremacy. Black people are forced to kill Asians because of the history of slavery and individuals are merely pawns in the great race struggle, incapable of independent thought or action. That's why prisons should be abolished.
At least that's what the Justice Democrats and Black Lives Matter believe
Both questions are in the same vein. It doesn't have to be stated for many from the population to intuit that the "supremacist" is likely implied.
Black Americans havent escaped the heavily supported global system of white supremacy that they've been fighting against for centuries, and most aren't under a false illusion that they have.
As long as whites don't dismantle the system and complete the reparative justice process, "white" and "white supremacy" will remain synonymous. The same way "German" and "Nazi" would be more synonymous, if Germans didn't dismantle the ideology and carry out reparative actions for the victims of their local holocaust.
I'm not well versed in spotting white supremacists, so I don't see why this post is that, but I'm very interested. Could you expand on this a bit please?
Sure. But to say the Nazis weren't white supremacists because their ideology differs from today's white supremacists isn't really saying anything at all. It's still racism, just differently defined.
We should remind ourselves that white supremacy is the belief that white people are superior to people of other races, and that white people should thus be dominant over them.
In academics, white supremacy is a term to denote a system of structural racism which privileges white people over others, whether or not there's racial hatred.
You do not have to be white to be a white supremacist.
We can then critically evaluate what the current presidency and their network of advisers and influencers say and do. Some of the rhetoric and actions fall along lines other than white supremacy (e.g. xenophobia, nationalism, etc.), while others are less veiled.
Let's open our eyes, turn a mirror, and ask ourselves some hard questions: do I believe white people are superior? Do I benefit from a system that does and do I think anything should be done about it?
> White supremacists -as in people who believe most of the same thing as actual literal nazis, are by no means rare these days
The conflation of white supremacism and naziism is pretty much entirely political maneuvering. They believe very different things about the state, forms of government, gay people, culture, land use and many other things. Not to mention that only a small number of people termed white supremacists actually are (it conflates believing in racial differences (which are often not just white>everything) with believing in racial segregation with believing that the "white" ethnic group will form a better society),
If you want to reduce white supremacy to basic statistics, you can do that, but as intellectual three-card Monte games go, this isn't a very good one: it's pretty easy to see the trick.
If you believe that, in the aggregate, "white" people are intellectually superior to any other race of people, you're a white supremacist. That's not a value judgement; it's literally what it means to be a white supremacist. I guess you could be a mild, benevolent white supremacist? I can grant you that all white supremacists do not wear hoods and burn crosses?
* Editing the comment for clarity
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