male presenting anglo canadian here, every interaction i have ever had is in some way tinged with white supremacy and male privilege. i've been treated better and assumed by default to be more competent than non-whites pretty much every day.
also like have you ever talked to another white person? if a white person or man talks to someone they assume shares their values they say the worst shit. i thought it was funny when libs were condemning trumps "locker room talk" defense like it's so unbelievable to them that men would discuss sexual assault like that in a male space. "i've never heard anything like that in a locker room." you are lying. most white men are thinking and saying the worst possible things at any given moment.
non-white people can tell by the way they are treated by white people and western society that white supremacy is the thread that binds the western world together. but if you look like them, they will just tell you straight up their terrible ideas assuming you will agree. if you cant figure it out when you actively benefit from it daily, if you cant notice that you're being held to a different standard by other white people daily, if you cant figure it out when they LOOK FOR EXCUSES TO TELL YOU, than i dunno how much self-crit is gonna help. at that point it seems like an empathy problem
if you identify as an anarchist or a communist and also identify with your whiteness, you missed something, probably a lot of things, along the way. try to be more perceptive geez.
love to my comrades of every skin colour and gender identity, death to the first world and any framework including race used to justify it
That it's entrenched? Sure.
How entrenched it is? That's a lot to expect, and it's probably best not to assume you have it figured out and don't have blind spots.
yeah truth. i was mostly thinking of the people in that reverse racism thread who seem to have missed something in society and in themselves.
it's probably impossible for white westerners to fully comprehend, i often learn things that in retrospect are obvious and feel dumb for not figuring out for myself. but meaningful self-crit is probably not possible if you can't identify the existence of white privilege in general.
i posted this to support Othello and corgi, and also kind of wanted to see if anyone would come here to further show their ass, but i guess everyone who would do that was already banned in the wake of corgi's dunk tank thread.