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

  • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    It took me longer than I care to admit to wake up to just how entrenched white supremacy is in Canada. Part of that was looking back at high school and realizing the university entrance tier classes were almost all white kids from well off families, while the lower trades level classes were where most of the indigenous kids were sent.

    They say we don't have segregated schools, but I don't know what else you'd call that shit.

    Also you are 100% right, if the average straight white dude thinks you're a fellow Straight White Guy™ they'll let loose with just the most vile racist, sexist, homophobic shit imaginable. I've worked with guys who have come off as fairly decent dudes, but then they go mask off about indigenous people (they can't resist using racist labels) and every racist trope they can think of comes tumbling out. The second they think it's just "the boys" you find out what these people really think