Is White Supremacy a Mental Disorder?

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6. It's real.

The article is a must read. It delves into how we're all immersed in it in this society.

African Americans and other people of color see and deal with it daily.

Only the most perceptive whites have any idea of the totality of it and how it's seen "as the norm" and "the way things should be", which is why tone deaf appropriations like "all lives matter" crop up even on this board, or the ubiquitous "why didn't she/he just comply" comment rolls off the tongues of those you thought would surely get it.

One of the things that gets me is when you find out that a cultural figure that you liked and thought must be a nice person slips up and publicly reveals his or her racism — i.e. Hulk Hogan, Paula Deem, Michael Richards, et al., and you wonder how many others haven't been able to see through white supremacist reality/privilege to real reality.

You kinda say to yourself "oh well, that's that, won't be watching "Seinfeld" anymore even though you like the other actors, especially Julia Louis-Dreyfus who has come out and backed progressive causes, but you get to watch her on her other shows.

Anyway, forgive me, just a few musings on this. I could go on and on but article at the link does it extremely well.