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What is this "White Supremacy" I keep hearing about?

This term gets bandied about quite a lot these days, and it seems to mean different things to different people.

So what is it?

Is it real, or just a psychological tool being used to marginalise and confuse white people in their own country as some alledge?

I'm white, and I can tell you people quite sincerely I don't feel "supreme" in any way. 

I will admit I did fake it once, when I got stranded in Dharan International Airport, and the only viable solution to my serious problem not of my making, was to make it someone else's problem... 

Seriously, All I needed to do was strike a folded arms pose in the empty concourse, wear a stern expression and tap my foot pointedly for about ten minutes and a guy ran up to help me!

I tried to act like a traveller in a 1950's film and it worked like gangbusters.

I didn't actually SAY "now look here, my man" but I did rather complain, and ask for a representatvie of British Airways to be summoned, on the basis that it was B.A. who had stranded me at midnight, in Dharan, at the start of one their bigger religious bank holidays whilst I am supposed to have been delivered to Rhyad!

The B.A. representative (who'd clearly been woken up!) got me a connecting fllght and a trip to a hotel for a wash and a nap before being returned to find that my connecting flight was cancelled.... Literally a melee broke out amongst my fellow travellers and in amongst the shouting I heard someone say the magic word "Taxi"... 

Still playing the part of a 1950's english traveller I grabbed the nearest two shouting people and said "You need to go to Rhyad, I need to go to Rhyad, CAN WE GET A TAXI??" 

Long story short, 450 kilcks to Rhyad in a monstrously large cheverolet after haggling (The others were going pay the asked rate, I lived in Brimingham at the time amongst middle eastern people, so I haggled, didn't know any better) cost me 40$ U.S....

I blame all those 1950's films. I really do. T.V. and FIlm is literally "programming". Good thing the people at the airprort must have watched some of the same films I did...  

I was so out of my depth. Outside Rhyad international airprot where my taxi had dropped me, (as I did not actually HAVE a final destination, the company was supposed to have picked me up at the airport some 8 hours previously, and none of the mobile numbers given were working fro me, so once I was in place at the airprort I had to get my O/H back in the U.K. to let em know I needed picking up). A sheikh looking dude was beating a smaller man with the obviously heavy and substantial black headband of his headgear...

In Dharan I'd got used to people stopping and literally falling to the fall and praying on the hour every hour.

And I'd learned that people will do a LOT for a few dollars U$ (me included).just like over here..

When chaos erupted around me as the flights were cancelled, and people were shouting at each other, my instinct was to organise a co-operative solution of like minded people with the same objective in order to achieve my own goal.

Is that "white supremacy"?

I don't know, I was too busy trying to get to my destination and adapt to the unfamiliar environment in whch I found myself, and solve the real problems I encountered, to be worried about the colour of my co-travellers. 

Seriously, what is this white supremacy they keep talking about? Is it a nickname for cocaine perhaps?

And where can I get some? ;c)

  • Oh you mean how idiots cherry pick one half of a sentence because they don't understand that FACTS matter more than emotional outbursts? Good for you!

  • All of you continue to circle jerk your idiocracy however. The truth never stopped an idiot from repeating what made them feel food.

    Do any of the people here read history? I thought American's were dumb. . .

    Didn’t you just get this warning?

    Reminder of Rule 5: 

    Be nice to one another and enjoy chatting with others. We encourage conversation and respectful debate; please be aware that individuals may give opinions which are not shared by other members. Insulting posts or comments making personal jibes will not be tolerated.   

    You keep making personal jibes at people dude. Stop calling people idiots because of something that you obviously don’t understand or agree with because it doesn’t affect you personally. Just because you don’t want to see that all forms of discrimination that happen all stem from the same source of white supremacy doesn’t make it any less true or not something that should be considered or discussed rationally instead of going straight into personal jibes by resorting to name calling.

  • I dont know much about UK history but I know in the US there are many cases of white people being treated more fairly. Other races being considered ‘less human’, more likely to get discriminated against or killed, harder time getting work, unable to vote, imperialism seems to have been majorly white lead, etc. While certain things were created to help, non-white people still have disadvantages and the facts are there regardless if you as a person view yourself as superior or not.

    This is very, very true.

  • A lot of the world’s issues from the discrimination of BIPOC people, LGBTQ+ people, women and even people who are mentally disabled all stem from white supremacy ideology. Anything that is different, whether it be being anyone who’s not white, who is a woman, anyone who isn’t cisgender or straight and people with mental health issues are lesser than white people and don’t deserve respect or accommodation. This has been seen time and again throughout human history since the beginning of colonization and is in constant repeat. Look at the US right now, transgender people wanting to be accommodated to by being allowed to have the right to use thee bathroom of the gender they identify with, even in the UK you have people like J.K. Rowling screaming anti-trans rhetoric on social media just because trans people want accommodations to take a p*ss in the bathroom of the gender they identify as.

    All forms of discriminations are equal to each other and are intertwined with each and stem from the same ideology of white supremacy. It’s really not that difficult to figure out or see.

  • White supremacy is when white people think they are superior to other people and have a natural right to dominate society.

    I dont know much about UK history but I know in the US there are many cases of white people being treated more fairly. Other races being considered ‘less human’, more likely to get discriminated against or killed, harder time getting work, unable to vote, imperialism seems to have been majorly white lead, etc. While certain things were created to help, non-white people still have disadvantages and the facts are there regardless if you as a person view yourself as superior or not.

    I dont completely agree with everything thats being done to ‘undo’ the past, for example 90% of any ‘villain’ I learn about in history class were all white (unsure if thats because more white people have been bad or if its cause if they mention someone of a different race theyll get in trouble), and in movies they are making live action remakes of movies and changing the white characters to be Black or asian, etc, and while I think thats okay, I also know if they changed a Black character into a white character then people would get upset. Frozen was criticized for having all white characters (despite it being inspired by1800s Norway - which males sense for them to have fair skin) yet movies like Mulan who have one race depicted are not criticized because it makes sense for chinese to live in china. Some kind of reverse-rasism attempt which is essentially still racism. Even with these few ‘not great things’ twords whites, just based on history and current events it is quite obvious that there is a ‘white supremacy’

    Im sure its even more so than what I know but being white myself I cant say what struggles there are

  • Whilst I might agree with your perspective Kefka, we are under a site rule to "play nice" here.

    Anyone who listens to the gentle words of Barbra Lerner Specter can hear and understand the changes that are being required of us white and european people.

    It is easy to feel like a victim, whatever demographic we live in.

    Good quality rebuke though....

  • I'm so tired of people like you. Look up the word SLAVE. It comes from SLAVIC or WHITE PEOPLE!

    Africans sold AFRICANS to WHITES! Before they were slaves, WHITES were slave hence the word SLAVE... I.e SLAVIC!!  Read history book. Everyone was a slave from every ethnicity the difference is Africans captured and sold their own while you refuse to admit REALITY.

    Welcome to the new age. Woke crap is dying with you because the REST OF US live in something called REALITY.

    BTW as I stated the #1 group committing suicide is from A>D White>Male>Autistic>Christian.

    You want some stats on that too because you haven't answered sh!t yet but you keep talking. By all means bury yourself further for anyone viewing this because I as a WHITE>MALE>AUTISTIC have HAD just about ENOUGH of the BS people like you spew without facts or logic.

  • Back in the days of segregation and KKK lynchings, hell, even back at the times of legalised slavery there were some white people who were poor, miserable and abused. That doesn't mean that racism or white supremacy didn't exist and the same is true now. 

    If you want to stick to places I do live, there are many white people who face issues like violence and poverty in my city. They are still less likely to have those issues than non-white people. It is a fact that I am less likely to be searched, assaulted or killed by a police officer because my skin is white.

    We have both had leaders in the very recent past who encourage pitting one group against the other for their own benefit. They tell you that our problems are caused by that other group, but they're lying and all the border walls and flights to Rwanda won't make a difference while people like them have the power. 

  • Since you want to down-vote(not that I care personally) perhaps do what civilized people did before the internet and make your case and I'll make mine.

    41yo white American male with 40+ suicide attempts(I guess I'm bad at what I do aside from being a horticulturalist, meteorologist and stock broker) dead twice over and multiple attempts because you know, white privilege!

    I'd LOVE to hear your explanation as to why I am the perp and everyone not of my color is the victim in a country you don't even live in!!!

  • Like Peter Ustinov tried to do, when answering a question for US immigration. I assert that I am not white, but yellowish-pink in skin colour. 'Yellowish-pink supremacy'!, there's a thought. Ustinov had eventually to admit that he was 'white' in order to enter the US. However, by the then current American 'one-drop rule', which asserted that any person with even one black ancestor was considered to be black, Ustinov was actually 'black'. This is because one of his gt, grandmothers was an Ethiopian princess. The whole concept of racial superiority is both repugnant and dangerous, wherever it raises its ugly head.

  • I feel like this is possibly a new low for this place. 

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