@HipHugHer
This isn't about whether most white people can go about their day without being outright supremacist or going on a supremacism-motivated killing spree, that's a low bar. This is about average "not racist" white people supporting white supremacist policies and politicians. The President ran his campaign largely on supremacist ideas, and continues to use them in power. The most charitable explanation is that these aren't a dealbreaker for a whole lot of people. Why is that? This administration has already kidnapped brown children with seemingly no intent of ever returning them, that's inexcusable but there are plenty of people willing to carry water for it and not recognize how truly horrendous that is.
The majority of white Americans *know* that racism is bad, but many don't seem to fully understand racism or possess the ability to recognize it. When someone or something they tend to agree with is deemed racist by an "out" group they react viscerally because they see themselves as good people and racism is bad, so they feel attacked. This is a country founded on white supremacy, enshrined in our founding documents, so it's deeply and subtly entwined within it. People who are "in" and thus not directly effected by this are not innately going to understand that "the way things are" is racist, that's what is referred to as privilege blindness. The racism inherent in the system has been reworked with changing times in order to grant it's tacit supporters plausible deniability.
The President and his party run on white supremacism, he just recently threatened about how dangerous the bikers and military that like him could be. He's winking and nodding, the people who care about racism (either for or against) have recognized this and keep pointing it out. What you see as inconsistent in this shooter's ideas is just the fundamental racism stripped of the niceties that our society uses to hide the darkness at its core, which we are all indoctrinated into unwittingly.
To be clear, white supremacy is not solely the domain of the GOP but they have increasingly upped the rhetoric and chosen to get in bed with the out-and-out supremacists in the face of changing demographics, in pursuit of power.
When many are latently supremacist (or okay with supremacism) because that's just what our society imparts, it can be hard to recognize or accept that such could be the case. It's a spectrum of behavior and beliefs: the "random" violent methods serve the non-violent actors of supremacy in power.
This isn't about whether most white people can go about their day without being outright supremacist or going on a supremacism-motivated killing spree, that's a low bar. This is about average "not racist" white people supporting white supremacist policies and politicians. The President ran his campaign largely on supremacist ideas, and continues to use them in power. The most charitable explanation is that these aren't a dealbreaker for a whole lot of people. Why is that? This administration has already kidnapped brown children with seemingly no intent of ever returning them, that's inexcusable but there are plenty of people willing to carry water for it and not recognize how truly horrendous that is.
The majority of white Americans *know* that racism is bad, but many don't seem to fully understand racism or possess the ability to recognize it. When someone or something they tend to agree with is deemed racist by an "out" group they react viscerally because they see themselves as good people and racism is bad, so they feel attacked. This is a country founded on white supremacy, enshrined in our founding documents, so it's deeply and subtly entwined within it. People who are "in" and thus not directly effected by this are not innately going to understand that "the way things are" is racist, that's what is referred to as privilege blindness. The racism inherent in the system has been reworked with changing times in order to grant it's tacit supporters plausible deniability.
The President and his party run on white supremacism, he just recently threatened about how dangerous the bikers and military that like him could be. He's winking and nodding, the people who care about racism (either for or against) have recognized this and keep pointing it out. What you see as inconsistent in this shooter's ideas is just the fundamental racism stripped of the niceties that our society uses to hide the darkness at its core, which we are all indoctrinated into unwittingly.
To be clear, white supremacy is not solely the domain of the GOP but they have increasingly upped the rhetoric and chosen to get in bed with the out-and-out supremacists in the face of changing demographics, in pursuit of power.
When many are latently supremacist (or okay with supremacism) because that's just what our society imparts, it can be hard to recognize or accept that such could be the case. It's a spectrum of behavior and beliefs: the "random" violent methods serve the non-violent actors of supremacy in power.
I'm right at that tipping point - I'm white around most POC, I'm just some swarthy fuck when around WASPs.
