The liberal myth of 'white supremacy'

 Adam Mill:

In comparing Nazis to dinosaurs, a movie critic once quipped: “They both make great villains because they’re both scary and extinct.” It’s unlikely we will ever need to build a hidden compartment in our attics to hide from the Gestapo or an electrified fortress to escape an errant tyrannosaurus rex. 

Hating and campaigning against Nazis takes zero courage and zero sacrifice in 2021. What products must you boycott to place economic pressure on Nazi Germany? Are you risking your job by refusing to wear a swastika armband? Will your family ostracize you for failing to snap a one-armed salute when Hitler holds a rally in your town? 

Yet the Nazis seem to have made a comeback—according to the Department of Homeland Security, the media, and Joe Biden. While self-identifying Nazis tend to be in short supply, organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center have taken to slapping the label “White Supremacist” on any number of replacements who, conveniently, happen to be their political opponents. Real white supremacists don’t say they’re white supremacists, they argue. So leftists opportunely and telepathically continue to find “white supremacists” among those who oppose them politically. The accused can try to deny their white supremacist tendencies. But there’s really no way to prove you’re not a white supremacist because denying your white supremacist tendencies is exactly what a white supremacist would do.

Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham are white supremacists, according to the SPLC. So too are the police. According to The Hill, our modern police directly evolved from pre-Civil War “slave patrols” that rounded up escaped slaves. Supreme Court Justice Clarance Thomas (an African American) is married to a white supremacist according to some leftists.  

Even more contagious than COVID-19, white supremacy has spread beyond mere people. Math is white supremacy. Climate change is white supremacy according to the Sierra Club. One must be ever-vigilant and ready with the white supremacy accusation lest “we overlook the white supremacists lurking in our workplaces, our schools, and within our communities. Nice people can also be white supremacists.” If you’re not finding and reporting on the white supremacists in your midst, you may be one yourself.

You might think that one of the requirements of being labeled a “white supremacist” is to be, well,  white. But you are wrong. You can apply the accusation to anyone who fails to join the denunciations. Candace Owens, though African American, is also a white supremacist, according to BET. As noted by Forbes, it’s a myth that “white supremacy” is upheld only by white people. “This is one of the most deceptive myths about white supremacy because it prevents [people of color] from exploring and examining the ways that they may individually sustain white supremacy. Just because you identify as a person of color doesn’t prevent you from propagating white supremacist views and ideologies.” A person of color is guilty of defending or upholding “white supremacy,” by “aligning with whiteness and distancing from ethnic and racial identity in order to gain access and opportunities.” In other words, integration itself is a tool of white supremacy.

I’ve never met a white supremacist . . . on the Right. I have, however, heard many on the Left say things about nonwhites that—let’s be honest—sound a little white supremacist-y.

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I have not seen a real white supremacist in decades and that one bragged to his black friends about his position.  The current definition used by the left is just people they disagree with regardless of color and affinity for doing arithmetic.  It has become a form of liberal racism.