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Thursday, November 29th, 2018

‘White supremacy’ is really about White degeneracy

Author:     Keith Kahn-Harris
Source:     Guardian (U.K.)
Publication Date:     Wed 28 Nov 2018 05.05 EST
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Stephan:   Here is an excellent take on the psychology of White Supremacy. As the just completed Senate election in Mississippi of Cindy Hyde-Smith makes clear, there are entire areas of the country defined by this moral degeneracy. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that it is this same racist moral degeneracy across generations that has left Mississippi, in the second decade of the 21st century, as  little more than a third world country.

Mississippi Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith in Confederate regalia

The concept of “white supremacy” is having a moment right now, and understandably so. White resentment, entitlement and bigotry never went away, but it is closer to the political mainstream now than it has been for decades.

The rhetoric of the likes of Donald Trump, Viktor Orbán, Steve Bannon and other figures in the ascendant populist right might not openly embrace “white power”, but there is no doubt that open white racists have been emboldened by them. Trump may have not wanted Richard Spencer (who coined the term “alt right”) to gleefully exclaim: “Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory” just after the 2016 US election, but he was not particularly bothered by it either.

Online and offline, there is a rich and growing milieu of radical racist thinkers and activists. Robert Bowers, the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter, was immersed in it and active on the Gab social network, stirring up hate towards Jews who support […]

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