Bix dot Blog

While I get what Kathleen Fitzpatrick was going for here, mostly what I see is people discussing these shootings as white supremacist terrorism or violent white supremacy, not merely “white supremacy”. We surely can’t not call it white supremacist just because other “lesser” things are white supremacist, too. Even more surely, we can’t be afraid to call it white supremacist just because more mainstream Republican white supremacists (or white nationalists) might try to raise that usage as a shield against accusations aimed at them. We can’t avoid calling things what they are just because other guilty parties might try to corrupt the public’s understanding.