Why non-White people might advocate white supremacy

[Behind the Aegis]

Police have identified the man who shot and killed at least eight people at an outlet mall in Allen, Tex., over the weekend as 33-year-old Mauricio Garcia.

Garcia was killed at the scene, meaning that efforts to determine the motivation for his actions are slower to emerge. On Sunday, The Washington Post reported that, among other possible motivations, authorities were examining whether Garcia was motivated by white-supremacist or neo-Nazi beliefs. Social media posts linked to Garcia reinforce this idea.

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For many people, this idea triggered an immediate negative reaction: How could someone with the name “Mauricio Garcia” — a Hispanic name — be a white supremacist? In some quarters, that The Post was offering such a possibility was somehow demonstrative of this newspaper’s purported interest in elevating unsupported racial claims.

In reality, the idea that someone named Garcia might be sympathetic to white-supremacist views is unexpected but not inexplicable. The Post has previously explored the ways in which non-White Americans at times ally with extremists who would seem to be their natural enemies. But the point can be made succinctly by considering two things: “White” is not as hard and fast a racial category as many assume, and “white supremacy” is about power as much as it is about race.

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1. Enrique Tarrio of the Proud Boys is one. Some like to pull the ladder up behind them...

thinking they're special. It happens. Look at Santos and other repugs like him.

[sanatanadharma]

2. There are progressive 'self's wrapped in bodies of all distinctions, color, nationality, heritage

Just as there are karmic-ly progressing people across all demographics, so also is true of those progressing in reverse (regressives) toward more beastly lives.

Everyone identifies as "I" and "Me". For some the other is an manifestation of us and we.
For others, the other is to be feared and crushed. Within these 'selfish' manifest humanity is wee.

[Elessar Zappa]

3. As far as Hispanics go,

it’s because some are mostly of European heritage so by most current definitions, they are white. But this is a good article that explains some of what we see.

[LizBeth]

4. A lot of Latino consider themselves white, firstly, hence the distinction

Hispanic/non-Hispanic with demographics. And religion.

Why do women support the Patriarchy or blacks support Republicans. Biblical scription gets in the way

[live love laugh]

5. White-ness: It's the next best thing to being white.

When you can’t actually BE white but embrace ideologies of the supremacists because you need to feel better than “others”.

[milestogo]

6. I'm usually surprised when members of a group that faces discrimination

are themselves racist or sexist or whatever.

Surprised, but I shouldn't be.