male presenting anglo canadian here, every interaction i have ever had is in some way tinged with white supremacy and male privilege. i’ve been treated better and assumed by default to be more competent than non-whites pretty much every day.
also like have you ever talked to another white person? if a white person or man talks to someone they assume shares their values they say the worst shit. i thought it was funny when libs were condemning trumps “locker room talk” defense like it’s so unbelievable to them that men would discuss sexual assault like that in a male space. “i’ve never heard anything like that in a locker room.” you are lying. most white men are thinking and saying the worst possible things at any given moment.
non-white people can tell by the way they are treated by white people and western society that white supremacy is the thread that binds the western world together. but if you look like them, they will just tell you straight up their terrible ideas assuming you will agree. if you cant figure it out when you actively benefit from it daily, if you cant notice that you’re being held to a different standard by other white people daily, if you cant figure it out when they LOOK FOR EXCUSES TO TELL YOU, than i dunno how much self-crit is gonna help. at that point it seems like an empathy problem
if you identify as an anarchist or a communist and also identify with your whiteness, you missed something, probably a lot of things, along the way. try to be more perceptive geez.
love to my comrades of every skin colour and gender identity, death to the first world and any framework including race used to justify it
I grew up in the southern US and if you’re white and assigned male at birth, at some point around the age of 13 or so, you’re gonna get sat down by someone and have a serious talk. It might be you’re uncle, your dad, some kids from school, whatever. It might only take 30 seconds too.
They’ll sit you down and explain that you’re part of something, part of some society above all the others. Maybe they’ll frame it in terms of defending yourself. They’ll let out a stream of slurs about how non-whites make a town poor or dirty. They’ll poorly articulate how white society has to be defended. They’ll articulate it so poorly they might not even use words like white or race. They’ll put all the focus on the other, on supposedly lesser races and a list of imaginary dangers
And that’s supposed to be one of the entrenching moments. I know that racist ideology is based on material circumstances and constant lifelong reinforcement, not a single speech from an older relative, but it was so common to growing up in the south. Everyone I knew got it at least once. I got it four times and each time it scared the shit out of me.
Death to America, it’s an unsalvageable racist mess. Malcolm X was right.
Jesus Christ, my indoctrination was much subtler. Just every older male family member making constant racist and sexist jokes and comments when there was no one else around.
I got that speech at the age of six.
My dad and I are not really on speaking terms and tbh I instinctively didn’t like him from a very young age but it was pretty wild how many absolutely cartoonishly racists things he said and did when I was very young dawned on me a bit later in life that they were completely not normal lol
9/11 happened when I was in elementary school and I remember him telling me all kinds of shit about how they hate our freedom and don’t use toilet paper and just shit on the street. And a bajillion weird things about Latinos since we were in the south as well
To OPs point, I’ve literally been in a car with an Uber driver who just started in on some racist shit bc I was male presenting and white and super surprised to get pushback