Working With White Supremacy

I feel like there's some sort of desire I think deep in people to be relatively egalitarian, even though our societies have shifted so far from that. And what basically happens is that, as we have become colonizers, part of that colonization is turned in on ourselves. So when you see, sometimes the judgment, judgment that is levied on Europeans who didn't comply with the standards of whiteness, then they're sometimes compared to African savages and stuff like that. This is racism that's actually weaponized in controlling European populations. Part of that is that then a lot of that cultural material that's attached to that is taken in and made part of the buildings, the building of nationalism.

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