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The problem with White Supremacy is that throughout my life I've seen it mainly be assaulted and opposed on grounds that it's immoral.
I think it needs to be mainly assaulted on grounds that it is *untrue*.
I think it needs to be mainly assaulted on grounds that it is *untrue*.
Look at US military insignias or TV shows, and you'll see that white culture is basically a deep mythology where White Supremacy harkens back from Pax Americana to Pax Britannica to Pax Romana and all the way back to the beginning of civilization, undefeated as a "race."
This, of course, is complete bullshit.
But people believe bullshit all the time and, in fact, the neat and uncomplicated character of bullshit often makes them more concentrated, more decisive, more fanatical than people who grapple with reality.
But people believe bullshit all the time and, in fact, the neat and uncomplicated character of bullshit often makes them more concentrated, more decisive, more fanatical than people who grapple with reality.
I've grown up seeing people get mad at Arabic and Indian mathematical contributions, at Africans included in historical dramas, at assertions that the USSR won WW2 and Vietnam beat the US, at assertions that Cuba and China are much more impressive projects than Sweden and Canada.
We hardly need to mention here how most men react when women's contributions are brought up!
Some people say the whole "toppling of statues" episode of 2020 was superficial, but I don't know if it's all that shallow a gesture honestly.
The hyperventilation I witnessed when the uprising dared even go after "the good ones" was very interesting to me.
The hyperventilation I witnessed when the uprising dared even go after "the good ones" was very interesting to me.
No, seriously, read Kennan. He absolutely sucks, but it's important to understand him. https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1288504505408073728
In short: don't appeal to the moral character of white people, attack the pride of white people.
I think we're much more responsive to that.
I think we're much more responsive to that.
