đŸ§”"It should be evident that it is simply not the case that white supremacy exists exclusively at the level of extremists."
"The rhetoric and images of extremists...are not that far removed from the way racial politics operate in presidential campaigns, or get played out in popular films."
"Dismissing white supremacists organizations and their discourse as merely a ‘lunatic fringe’ without any relevance to the rest of the culture maintains a white privilege by...
"...removing from analytic view the similarities such discourse shares with the broader white supremacist context and by distancing the way all whites benefit from the existence of such groups."
"The presence of these groups provides an ‘out’ for whites proclaiming their racial moral innocence while obviating the need to examine institutionalized white supremacy and the way it benefits whites."
"Ignoring white supremacists reaffirms white supremacy; and we do so at our own peril as a society.”
pp.136-7 by me, in White Lies, 1997. //fin
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