White people need to up their game.

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36. While I agree that all this is necessary, and for various personal reasons I am engaged in

that ongoing effort more deeply than you probably would think, my self-examination and ongoing self-education is not going to change most white supremacists' views or actions.

My persistent calling out of racism in real life where I see it has changed some people's white supremacist views. I find that it works mostly with those who have been raised in households where those attitudes are simply inherited and unexamined. And many white people doing that together has more likelihood to succeed in changing more people's views. But I have noticed that those who have embraced their white supremacist views simply become more entrenched when they are called out for it. And then they very intentionally separate themselves from those of us calling them out.

So while I agree with you that it is important that I, as a white person, understand that white supremacist values are embedded in everything in our history, and white supremacy is still a primary economic and political force in our society, my understanding really does little to practically change people who have made a conscious choice to espouse white supremacist views.

So we are back to legislating protections.