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Racism isn't boogeymen in white robes hanging people.

It's kindly old ladies whose smile disappears the instant they lock onto a brown kid in the grocery store.

It's bosses who somehow find a good reason to not give a non-white person a pay raise or time off.

It's ordinary people who feel uncomfortable when they encounter people who look different and then they act different towards them.

The grand majority of racism is invisible. It's a constant pressure on people who do not perfectly fit into the culture that reminds them that if they do not meet the mark of what that group of people expect from them then the consequences will be extreme.

When you are not white and live in a town of generically racist white people, there are countless small things that happen that continuously remind you that your presence is under surveillance and that your permission to exist peacefully in "their" space is an act of grace that you must forever be grateful for.

This is something that can be explained to anyone ad nauseum, but until they experience it for themselves it sounds like bs. It's so easy to ignore that most people forget this as soon as their eyes are not looking at these words.


Race and culture are not the same thing and it’s a big pet peeve of mine that Americans always link the two.

A Slav that was born and grew up in China would be Caucasian but culturally Japanese.

Accusations of racism should stay limited to disparate treatment based on skin color or race exclusively and not extend into the cultural domain. Cultural preferences are not racist, full stop.

When I say culture, I mean the local culture, which is often defined by the demographics of the area.

I can see how that is confusing, but there is more than one interpretation of the word.

Also, wouldn't the Slav who grew up in China be culturally Chinese?

They would probably also experience racism as defined by being treated differently because of their race. Their experience of what would most likely be a small pocket of people who have integrated them surrounded by a larger pocket that would automatically treat them as a westerner would mean that their cultural experience would be inversely analogous to a Chinese person who grew up in Poland.

I don't disagree with anything you've said. Just that calling DHH a white supremacist is an exaggeration. It waters down the meaning, and not sure what's left to describe violent street thugs in discourse, I guess "LiTerAL nAZis"?
I mean, his words are the words of a white supremacist. His ideals are the ideals of a white supremacist.

Just because he isn't calling for war, murder, famine, pestilence, plague, death, and the fourth Reich all to fall on people of other colors does not mean that he isn't a white supremacist.

Like I said. It's easy to overlook. No one should long for a "pure" society.

There are no pure humans on this planet outside of a select group of african people who never interbred with neanderthal or denisovians, and as the last bastion of "pure" humans they seem fairly well content to not enforce their superiority on other people.

https://www.universityherald.com/articles/70130/20170321/har...

So, let's all just be mutts and get along. Love who you love. Live where you want to live.

And let other people do whatever the hell they want to do as long as it does not hurt anyone.

I just think these word shifts are silly. Yeah times change but using the most extreme terms waters them down, and personally think it makes society numb to them, like crying wolf too many times.
What are the chances that successful white supremacists have learned how to espouse their ideals while avoiding triggering language that could affect their income or popularity?

There are many people who won't get it unless it is explicit, and this has been an understood issue for a long time.

Look at these lyrics:

"He's the one who likes all our pretty songs, and he Likes to sing along and he likes to shoot his gun, but he Knows not what it means" -Nirvana "In Bloom"

People who follow right wing white supremacist influencers and fail to understand that they are being influenced to support right wing white supremacist causes are the people Kurt Cobain was singing about.

They think they are just there for fun, to own the libs, to protect their future or their country or occasionally to protect the "purity of their bloodlines", whatever catch phrase is going around, and then the people they support do bad things their supporters say, "It's not my fault X did Y" but keep supporting the general causes and content of those influencers.

Sure, maybe they drop Andrew Tate for being a rapist, but then they just find someone else to take his place.

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