if you are white, live in a western country, and haven't picked up on how entrenched white supremacy is, you're a dullard
if you are white, live in a western country, and haven't picked up on how entrenched white supremacy is, you're a dullard
male presenting anglo canadian here, every interaction i have ever had is in some way tinged with white supremacy and male privilege. i've been treated better and assumed by default to be more competent than non-whites pretty much every day.
also like have you ever talked to another white person? if a white person or man talks to someone they assume shares their values they say the worst shit. i thought it was funny when libs were condemning trumps "locker room talk" defense like it's so unbelievable to them that men would discuss sexual assault like that in a male space. "i've never heard anything like that in a locker room." you are lying. most white men are thinking and saying the worst possible things at any given moment.
non-white people can tell by the way they are treated by white people and western society that white supremacy is the thread that binds the western world together. but if you look like them, they will just tell you straight up their terrible ideas assuming you will agree. if you cant figure it out when you actively benefit from it daily, if you cant notice that you're being held to a different standard by other white people daily, if you cant figure it out when they LOOK FOR EXCUSES TO TELL YOU, than i dunno how much self-crit is gonna help. at that point it seems like an empathy problem
if you identify as an anarchist or a communist and also identify with your whiteness, you missed something, probably a lot of things, along the way. try to be more perceptive geez.
love to my comrades of every skin colour and gender identity, death to the first world and any framework including race used to justify it
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Racists, whether they're aware of their racism or not, are terrified of being treated the way they treat undesirables.
the next time you meet a canadian after telling them how cool it is that canadians are polite health care socialists (to lull them into liberal self satisfaction) ask them what they think about indigenous land rights. frothing dismissal of native rights to anything at all is sure to follow.
or just say "chinese person" to a british columbian and watch them short circuit
For someone completely out of the loop, why does that short circuit them?
Many white British Columbians will think of themselves as good little liberals and not racist or anything like that. But for some reason making racist comments about Chinese people is perfectly acceptable to many of these same people.
legit before i moved here i visited all the time because my dad's family is from here, and every single person I know casually commenting on bad asian drivers was my first encounter with seemingly normal people harping in racist stereotypes
bc was, like washington in the us, a racist project from day one, a location for white people to go to get away from others. but bc also has a particular history with chinese people because they were imported en masse to build the railroads here. making opium illegal in bc was one of if not the first drug laws in canada because lawmakers were worried about white women being corrupted by orientals in opium dens.
that's the history but also modern anti chinese racism is based around the idea that chinese people are moving here, buying up a lot of properly, and keeping to themselves in insulated communities. there are lots of people here who think that the only reason housing costs are so high is because rich chinese people are buying up all the living space in order to invest their money somewhere where the chinese government can't get at it.
the only truth to any of that is that maybe chinese immigrants are maintaining their own communities in bc and not integrating. which like, duh, canadians here are actively hostile against them so why wouldnt they stick to themselves. other than that it's all white canadians working themselves up about how unfair it is that chinese people get to live here too.
I had this same conversation (more or less) with a Canadian around 2020. He was talking about how violent and racist American cops are, and how Canadian cops would never murder someone like what happened with George Floyd. He didn't appreciate when I responded with several examples of the Mounties brutalizing and killing native people.
canadian liberals haven't figured out a way to justify the government's treatment of native canadians so they prefer just to not think about it at all. much easier to care about black americans because they have a story they can tell themselves about how canada didn't do slavery and was the end of the underground railroad and canada is a "mosaic" or whatever.
Or if you're talking to a European lib, who laughs at how racist Americans are, ask them what they think of the Roma people.
When replacement theory was the hot topic I spent so much IRL time saying "Why is it a problem? Are minorities treated poorly or something?"
Usually met with "no but revenge"
"Revenge for what? 🤔"
Inward eyebrow meme