> White supremacy is the idea that white people are inherently better and more capable and therefore more deserving. That's a common dictionary or encyclopedia

> White supremacy is the idea that white people are inherently better and more capable and therefore more deserving. That's a common dictionary or encyclopedia definition of the white supremacy. More broadly, white supremacy also refers to the systems and structures of power that are built into most of "western" (a better term might be post-colonial) societies that favor both white people, and people who support or uphold the balance of power in those post-colonial societies. > Racist systems that have encoded societies biases are generally not white supremacist I agree, however I think that those racist systems that are not inherently white supremacist in nature are largely rooted in non-colonial countries (basically countries other than the European colonial powers, and the countries that grew out of those colonies). > It also pushes people who unintentionally did something racist way into the defensive if you tell them they are white supremacist. And pushing people who unintentionally did racist things into defending their actions is not going to make things better. That is just not true. If someone does or says something racist, they can and should be challenged on it. If they become defensive, there are multiple reasons that could happen, but if the reason is that they simply didn't know better, it's just the way their society is, or if the reason is that they are opposed to "wokeness" (which is a catch-all for intersectionality, critical race theory, and many other modern perspectives and ideologies that are largely centered on dismantling power structures and reducing bias and discrimination), then it's likely that they are supporting white supremacy out of ignorance (whether that ignorance is from being uninformed or uneducated, or the more malicious willful ignorance of people who choose to use or engage in racist norms because they are opposed to "wokeness" from an ideological or other perspective). Pushing people who do things that could be cast as unintentionally racist is the only way to a) educate them, so they can do better, or b) determine if it was an intentional act. I know this from practical experience, and it was only from going through the hard and painful experience of being called out on harmful "unintentionally" racist jokes and behaviour that I learned to do better after being raised by a family that had (and for the most part, still has) some pretty racist and discriminatory views.