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"Identity" doesn't determine your politics. Sometimes, your accountant determines your politics

"White supremacy" is not a fixed target and within a white supremacist system, the allure of "provisional" whiteness can be overwhelming

While BIPOC who take to the streets to resist are brutalized, targeted for extra-judical repression or straight up killed...

Those BIPOC who rise to defend white supremacy are rewarded with followers, financial support, a sense of belonging...

This is not a new story, but it is one that manages to cut against liberal narratives around race that generally speaking fail to account for how class and white supremacy function

A dramatized example of how this has worked historically plays out in the Netflix series "Barbarians" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/28/arts/television/barbarians-netflix.html

Those who resist Roman rule face horrific consequences, while those who embrace it are rewarded by the empire.

The "Barbarians" are indeed the "racialized" other even as their skin is the same color as their Roman oppressors