Is white supremacy as bad of a problem in the US as people make it seem?
Where is the proof that white supremacy is on the rise?
Where is the proof that white supremacy and similar forms of extremism are on the rise? Well, a good place to start is by looking at all the white nationalist talking points being made by prominent Republicans these days. Trump-aligned people like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar, Wendy Rogers, lieutenant governor of Idaho Janice McGeachin, and FOX News contributor Michelle Malkin have openly allied themselves with literal white supremacists like Nick Fuentes and Jared Taylor.
What kind of stuff does Nick Fuentes say?
Not bad enough? Well, here he makes even clearer what he would want for America:
If you look at some responses to Nick, some people can’t even believe he is being serious. Well, the problem is, Nick Fuentes seldom ever says anything that doesn’t sound like a theocratic totalitarian, anti-democratic hellscape, and plenty of right-wingers are coalescing around him, and others like him.
And why is it so hard for some to comprehend that racism is a major problem anyway? The United States had race-based slavery for hundreds of years, even fighting a major civil war over it. Then, even after slavery had been abolished, racist states did a great deal to make sure black Americans and other minority groups were discriminated against, In fact, it was not until 1967 that interracial marriage was fully legalized, with the case of Loving v Virginia. Now, is 1967 ancient history? Obviously not.
Frankly, if you are aware of that history and wonder how there could at least be some residual racism, you should probably think about it harder.
Of course, racists are PR savvy, to some degree, so they are not all quite as openly crazy as Nick Fuentes.
They might say they are not racist but just protecting “racial self-interest” or protecting “white identity.”
Some will downplay America’s racism by saying, in so many words, “There are so many places in the world where white supremacy is a much more prominent force than it is in the United States!”
Or Tucker Carlson might pretend to be non-racist, even after regularly pushing the “great replacement” theory wherein “globalists” (among white supremacists typically a codeword for “Jews”) are trying to replace white people with minorities.
Similarly, Donald Trump will claim he’s not racist despite supporting someone like Marjorie Taylor Greene (who, again, has spoken at a white nationalist conference hosted by Nick Fuentes), and also basically re-launched his political career by saying Barack Obama was a foreigner.
I’ve been shocked by how many states, countries, and cities there are that are pretty openly authoritarian in outlook these days.
Oh, and the racial hatred can be translated into other issues, too. For example, Candace Owens may be a black woman but she recently used her media status to lie and claim the Uvalde school shooter was trans. The shooter wasn’t, but that didn’t stop Candace from suggesting that trans people are about as suspicious as that shooter and that maybe we need to put them in mental hospitals or somewhere away from the public so we’ll be safe.
Well, let’s be clear here: That’s not just a bit of culture shock on Candace Owens’ part. Her paranoid words about transgendered people actually have some genocidal implications, and I don’t think I’m guilty of hyperbole here. She literally tried to compare the average trans person to a school shooter, suggesting each one might be a ticking timebomb.
Really, that type of lying is every bit as dangerous as any white nationalist talking point, and the GOP’s so-called “Christian nationalist” movement is increasingly coalescing around anti-trans talking points, knowing it’s still a bit more palatable to general audiences than their racist worldviews.
By the way, if you don’t believe any of this stuff I have typed, if you think it’s “FAKE NEWS” or whatever, then feel free to check out many internet comment sections on right-wing sites, where far-right extremists feel safe to say whatever hateful things they want. Just don’t get suckered into joining them.
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