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As an anthropologist I find it irresponsible to generalize about a people's culture. But having lived in the US, Australia & Aotearoa, it is impossible to miss the deeply perverse & twisted commitment by White Settlers to thwart efforts for equity every chance they get. 1/5
This is hardly a novel insight. And of course it isn't about all white people on an individual level. Nor is it a request that more The Atlantic or NYT micro ethnographies on white "conservatives" or Trump supporters be written. 2/5
But there is a grotesque and persistent similarity to the patterns of grievances and behavioural responses you find amongst white settlers across these sites through time and space. And the inflection is distinguishable from expressions in the UK, Ireland and Europe. 3/5
Current whiteness studies aren't quite capturing the particularities (and permutations) of White Settlerism. In calls to address white supremacy, the work on settler colonialism as an on-going and structuring process must be kept in the center. 4/5
It will be more illuminating of the problem, and illustrative of the solutions if we draw from Settler context vs broad comparisons with UK, Nordic and Eastern European variations of this toxic theme. 5/5
