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> Or trying to argue with someone who believes in "systemic white supremacy" by pointing out that Asian-Americans earn more money than white Americans. White S

> Or trying to argue with someone who believes in "systemic white supremacy" by pointing out that Asian-Americans earn more money than white Americans. White Supremacy is the belief that white people are inherently superior to everyone else and should dominate, regardless of how much money anyone makes. There are plenty of poor white supremacists. Did you mean systemic social privilege? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_privilege https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_privilege >I don't know what to do in these situations. Empathy and understanding.

slibhb 5y ago
This is what I meant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_supremacy#Academic_use_of_the_term https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_supremacy#Academic_use_o...
- stirfish 5y ago
  > The term white supremacy is used in some academic studies of racial power to denote a system of structural or societal racism which privileges white people over others, regardless of the presence or the absence of racial hatred. According to this definition, white racial advantages occur at both a collective and an individual level (ceteris paribus, i. e., when individuals are compared that do not relevantly differ except in ethnicity). Legal scholar Frances Lee Ansley explains this definition as follows: >By "white supremacy" I do not mean to allude only to the self-conscious racism of white supremacist hate groups. I refer instead to a political, economic and cultural system in which whites overwhelmingly control power and material resources, conscious and unconscious ideas of white superiority and entitlement are widespread, and relations of white dominance and non-white subordination are daily reenacted across a broad array of institutions and social settings. This makes sense to me, and doesn't seem related to how much money Asian Americans make. Have you heard of redlining? It might make "systemic white supremacy" make more sense in an American context. If you've heard of Martin Luther King Jr, this is why he was assassinated. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining
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slibhb 5y ago

This is what I meant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_supremacy#Academic_use_of_the_term https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_supremacy#Academic_use_o...

stirfish 5y ago
> The term white supremacy is used in some academic studies of racial power to denote a system of structural or societal racism which privileges white people over others, regardless of the presence or the absence of racial hatred. According to this definition, white racial advantages occur at both a collective and an individual level (ceteris paribus, i. e., when individuals are compared that do not relevantly differ except in ethnicity). Legal scholar Frances Lee Ansley explains this definition as follows: >By "white supremacy" I do not mean to allude only to the self-conscious racism of white supremacist hate groups. I refer instead to a political, economic and cultural system in which whites overwhelmingly control power and material resources, conscious and unconscious ideas of white superiority and entitlement are widespread, and relations of white dominance and non-white subordination are daily reenacted across a broad array of institutions and social settings. This makes sense to me, and doesn't seem related to how much money Asian Americans make. Have you heard of redlining? It might make "systemic white supremacy" make more sense in an American context. If you've heard of Martin Luther King Jr, this is why he was assassinated. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining
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