I have zero patience for the idea that we should play along with their disingenuous tokenism. They're openly racist and antisemitic in their public chats, and virulently so. Overt white supremacy defines their organizational culture.
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Their nationalism is white supremacist nationalism. They celebrate a very specific idea of white cultural homogeneity and are openly hateful of deviation from that nationalist norm. American nationalism is a distinctly white supremacist nationalism.
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If people don't understand that tokenism doesn't undo an organization's white supremacy, explain it to them. Explain it like you explain that Jared's status in the White House doesn't make Trump any less of an antisemite.
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If you don't think people underatand structural white supremacy and how an organization can be white supremacist without necessarily being all-white, explain it. That's our job as researchers and antifascist organizers: to help folks understand these dynamics.
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the "white" is "white supremacist" is a modifier on the type of supremacy, not on the nature of the supremacist. p simple stuff, once u see the trick.
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