(February 19, 2020 at 8:18 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: White supremacy does use the white masses, not just the white racists, and their invocation of deference as cover. This isn't the only non-racist plank of american society that white supremacy leverages for effect. To return to an earlier analogy, racism is the water. You don't have to be the racist shark to be a functional part of the white supremacist structure.
Arguably, non racists and crypto-racists are more useful to white supremacy than the hood wearing tiki torch burning set.
Athene can only have her opinions validated when, in speaking of how a person can be useful to white supremacy without intentionally meaning to be - this results in a sense of personal insult and condemnation which expresses itself as a reflexive counter accusation of racism. In this case, she can't talk about a reality of how white supremacy operates in the world and where it draws it's warrant, cover, and innumerable other goods. The good non racist whites have shut that down as personally insulting to them. I suppose it should be, but maybe we should be personally insulted by how the white supremacists are using us, rather than being angry at the person who pointed out that and how they are using us?
Not a problem with me I fully acknowledge that. The insulting part is telling me what " White people think " and the intentions of White people. I don't dispute the fact that white supramcy exists and that Im part of the system even if its unwillingly.
