I was feeling grouchy after not quite keeping my cool during a chat today.
Essentially, a Canadian with whom I've discussed far right movements *for years* asked me: "You seem interested in the topic of white nationalism: can you tell me what that is and how it differs from Black nationalism?"
It's just frustrating to be asked questions that aren't trolling, but which still come from comfortable ignorance and have to be unpacked on multiple levels.
Brings back "fun" memories of life in KW. 🙃
The problem in that tricity was its two tiers of comfortable ignorance: your garden variety white folk, most working lower class jobs or maybe even unhoused, who found comfort in hard circumstances by holding that they were at least better than non-white persons, and believed themselves the greater social victims.
Then there was the academic equivalent: folks of means who loved nothing more than tacitly defending hateful white conduct via "intellectual" hypotheticals about marginalized people.
@MLClark Such a dehumanizing perspective. You have much more patience than I.
Well, right until I reached a breaking point and migrated (for economic reasons and reasons of personal education, too, but it didn't help how unhappy I was constantly being around folks who wanted their prejudices catered to in conversation). I now live in a culture that certainly isn't free of prejudices, but which also doesn't have a long, seasoned history of looking down on others for racialized reasons to feel better about oneself. Todos somos humanos. Todos somos iguales.