White supremacy's inferiority complex

[applegrove]

by Khaled Diab at al Jazeera

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/11/white-supremacy-racial-inferiority-complex-161129104031285.html

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But beyond the white privilege of the "old boy" network, there is the aspirational privilege of underprivileged whites. Like the patriarchy and the class system, race primarily serves the top dogs, not the lower classes. In fact, racial supremacy has been used since its invention to control the anger and frustration of ordinary and poor whites in two ways.

Firstly, although many whites have always been almost as economically disadvantaged as other "inferior" groups, their sense of belonging to the "superior" group helps distort their subordinate reality and absorb their frustrations.

Secondly, when these frustrations threaten to bubble over, this illusion of superiority helps to channel anger away from the real authors of white underprivilege towards softer targets, namely "inferior" ethnic, religious and racial groups.

This is what the fascists and Nazis in Europe expertly did in the first half of the 20th century, to devastating effect. Moreover, in its efforts to recapture an idealised and distorted "golden age" before "decay" set in, white supremacy bears striking similarities to supremacist Islamist and militant discourse.



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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Lyndon Johnson knew this, too:

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

[Canoe52]

2. I just love this quote!

[s-cubed]

3. There's another a Southern quote

Let's you and him fight.

[heaven05]

4. might as well

[treestar]

5. The commenters there

are terrible.

I hate hearing complaints about white people as the ones who are the victims of racism. It's just so stupid. My BIL wanted to be a cop and claimed they told him they had to hire women and minorities so he couldn't have the job - he's been a victim ever since. How many racist cops out there tell white guys they aren't going to hire this stuff in order to stoke white resentment?