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On the Ever-Expanding Concept of White Supremacy

Crotalus AdamanteusFeb 20, 2021, 5:12:16 PM
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When the average person hears terms like "white supremacy" or "white nationalism," he expects that the person so described believes that people with white skin are superior or more entitled to be in America than people who do not have white skin.  However, unbeknownst to the average person, the left-wing activists who obsess over accusing and purging "white supremacists" from society are using a different definition.

These activists claim that terms like "white" and "whiteness" reflect attitudes and behaviors rather than merely race.  This claim is preposterous because the word "white" is an obvious and inextricable reference to white-skinned people when used in the context of discussing race relations.  Nonetheless, when left-wing activists are challenged by their targets for their obvious racism, these activists will sometimes claim that "white" and "whiteness" refer to attitudes and behaviors that reflect an attachment to Western culture and traditions, which these activists view as authoritarian and anachronistic.  In promoting this definition, the left-wing activists expand the concepts of "white supremacy" and "white nationalism" to include behaviors that the average person would never associate with those terms.  In fact, the activists have expanded the concept of "white supremacy" so far as to cause it to include attitudes and behaviors that the average person would not even consider immoral.

For example, in February 2021, the Oregon Department of Education advertised a training session for its middle school teachers called the "Pathway to Math Equity Micro-Course."  This training provided teachers with a "toolkit" allegedly for "dismantling racism in mathematics."  The toolkit claimed that "white supremacy culture" was part of mathematics because mathematics focuses on "getting the 'right' answer," requires students to "show their work," and is "objective."  Furthermore, the toolkit adds that math is used to "uphold capitalist, imperialist, and racist views."  A "Dismantling racism" workbook associated with the toolkit is even more explicit in its definition of "white supremacy culture," which it claims includes perfectionism, sense of urgency, defensiveness, quantity over quality, worship of the written word, the concept that there is only one right way, paternalism, "either/or thinking," power hoarding, fear of open conflict, individualism, a person's belief that he is the one who has to do something if it is to be done correctly, "progress is bigger, more," objectivity, and the "right to comfort." 

(https://www.foxnews.com/us/oregon-education-math-white-supremacy; https://equitablemath.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/1_STRIDE1.pdf; https://resourcegeneration.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2016-dRworks-workbook.pdf )

Also in February 2021, Coca-Cola was caught forcing its employees to complete an online training which told them to "Try to be less white."  The training stated that being less white meant to "be less oppressive," "be less arrogant," "be less certain," "be less defensive," "be less ignorant," "be more humble," "listen," "believe," "break with apathy," and "break with white solidarity."

(https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2021/02/19/coca-cola-is-forcing-their-employees-to-chug-down-seminars-on-how-to-be-less-whi-n2585029; https://twitter.com/DrKarlynB/status/1362774562769879044 )

In 2019, the ethnic studies department of the University of Colorado at Denver offered a course called "Problematizing Whiteness: Educating for Racial Justice."  When The College Fix revealed the existence of this course, the course's instructor, Associate Professor Cheryl Matias, sent an email to The College Fix to explain that "Whiteness is not about culture or white skin."  A flowchart that was included as supplemental course material stated that "Elements of whiteness" include investment, privilege, naturalization, identity, colorblindness, "historically produced," wealth, victimization in reverse racism rhetoric, entitlement, and authority, among other items. The flowchart also states that whiteness can cause minorities to adopt "white emotions."

(https://www.thecollegefix.com/university-offers-problematizing-whiteness-course/ )

Also in 2019, Sandia National Laboratories held a three-day reeducation camp called "White Men's Caucus on Eliminating Racism, Sexism, and Homophobia in Organizations."  This training stated that "white male culture" is racist and sexist and includes such values as "rugged individualism," "a can-do attitude," "hard work," and "striving towards success." 

(https://christopherrufo.com/nuclear-consequences/; https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1293603172842221570 )

On January 15, 2021, the Washington Post ran an editorial titled "To understand Trump's support, we must think in terms of multiracial Whiteness." The editorial explained that "multiracial whiteness" is "Rooted in America's ugly history of white supremacy, indigenous dispossession and anti-blackness" and stated that it is "an ideology invested in the unequal distribution of land, wealth, power and privilege — a form of hierarchy in which the standing of one section of the population is premised on the debasement of others."  Further, "Multiracial whiteness reflects an understanding of whiteness as a political color and not simply a racial identity — a discriminatory worldview in which feelings of freedom and belonging are produced through the persecution and dehumanization of others."  The editorial then goes on to state that "For voters who see the very act of acknowledging one's racial identity as itself racist, the politics of multiracial whiteness reinforces their desired approach to colorblind individualism. In the politics of multiracial whiteness, anyone can join the MAGA movement and engage in the wild freedom of unbridled rage and conspiracy theories."  This article provides perhaps the clearest example of the problem with the left-wing's articulation of "whiteness."  It is discussed as a "political color" rather than a skin color, and it is assumed to be full of terrible behavior that is then affixed to "colorblind individualism," a morally righteous attitude and fixture of contemporary Western thought that the left-wing opposes.

(https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/15/understand-trumps-support-we-must-think-terms-multiracial-whiteness/ )

This bizarre expansion of the concept of "white supremacy" has led to an increasingly ridiculous list of items that have been labeled as either white supremacist, white nationalist, racist, or bigoted.  I have placed this list at the end of this post and will continue to add to it as new items are so branded by these left-wing extremists. However, before we get to that list, I first want to explain what the left-wing is doing by fabricating their own definition of "white supremacy."

What the left is doing is called equivocation.  Equivocation is a logical fallacy in which a term is used with one meaning at one point in the argument and then is used with a different meaning in another point in the argument (https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Equivocation ).  When the left accuses a person of white supremacy, they are using their own esoteric definition.  However, the rest of us, who are unaware of their special definition, think that the person so accused believes in the superiority of white-skinned people, which inspires us to mistreat that person even though he has neither done anything wrong nor done anything we would consider as evidence of white supremacy under the common definition of the concept.  The left thereby tricks normal people into attacking the innocent by relying on our ignorance of their equivocation and our emotional reaction to white supremacy, as we understand the concept.  Unfortunately, because actual white supremacy is so terribly evil and obviously wrong, most of us fail to ask important questions when someone is accused.  Thus, it is important that those of us who are aware of the left's deceptive equivocation raise awareness of what they are doing so that we can help people understand that every accusation of white supremacy must be met with demands that the accuser explain exactly what the person did so that we can judge whether the person's attitude or behavior meets the common definition of "white supremacy." The only behavior worse than true white supremacy is to punish those who are wrongly accused of adhering to it.  If you are so accused, please feel free to use this post to defend yourself.

The following is a list of items that I have found that have been labeled as "white supremacy," "white nationalism," "racism," or "bigotry:"

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