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[–]Fitter_HappierWhite Nationalist 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I have yet to hear anyone claim to be a "White Supremacist".

They're merely paving the way for "laws" that put any White advocates on a list so they can surveil us and then swoop in when we walk our dogs off the leash or let our car registration lapse. Meanwhile "bricking" cops is excused as "protesting systemic racism".

[–]AFutureConcern[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There are two things going on when someone is said to be a "white supremacist":

  1. The consensus among the general public is that a "white supremacist" is somebody who believes that white people are all inherently superior to non-whites because of their genetics and skin color.
  2. The academic definition whereby anyone with remotely conservative, capitalist or even liberal views who doesn't want to tear down society, is "complicit in white supremacy"; for example Donald Trump or any one of his tens of millions of supporters.

The reality is that nobody fits the description of (1) which is really just a straw man against nationalist ideas. But academics and leftist media pundits apply the definition (2) to normie conservatives, causing them to disavow the "real white supremacists", which they'll do a quick Wikipedia search to confirm. That's us.

I did come to a realization, though, regarding why leftists would associate even liberal meritocracy with "white supremacy". It's because they themselves believe that white people are superior (at least relative to the standard Western definition of achievement). While people on the right are very careful to say, "nobody is superior, we're just different," or "even if there are average differences, we should all judge people as individuals," or "every group should be proud of their own," I think some leftists are true believers in white superiority. They just think that the definition of "superior" ought to change, because they think that defining it in terms of how good one is at math, or English, or physics means white people will inevitably end up on top. Leftist Fredrik deBoer makes this point explicitly in his book The Cult of Smart, which Andrew Sullivan has termed "bell curve leftism".