WHITE SUPREMACIST
In my decades in Canada, I have never once heard someone say whites were better than another race outside of a strictly tribal preference. Italians, Greeks, Chinese, and even blacks were referred to descriptively, with every country of origin its own moniker. My Jamaican friend Willy at the pool supply warehouse referred to me as a honky and a bumboclot. That bothered me zero percent. It was imaginative ball-busting for sure.
I’ve lived and worked in several provinces, speak both official languages, worked blue collar and white-collar jobs, and learned in settings as diverse as prisons and universities.
I watched Martin Luther King on black & white TV with ma in the 60s and absorbed her sympathies. Doubly so when I sat in front of a plate of beans and warm powdered milk well past dinner time to satisfy my mother’s empathy for “starving kids in Africa.” Later on, I followed the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa in the newspapers. The book Nelson Mandela, Conversations With Myself, foreword by Barack Obama, sits on my shelf.
As a young boy, my friend across the street was Chinese and his dad ran the local Marco Polo restaurant. There were a wide variety of other immigrants in Heron Park. Even Quebecers. Lebanese started showing up in our schools when I was still in primary grades. In grade nine, a North African started attending my high school. A good dude, he spoke a more proper French and could play Rugby and Soccer better than most.
Dad visited over fifty countries serving in the Canadian Navy, understanding the world firsthand and regaling us with tales of meeting Sheiks and foreign officials.
So when I see “white supremacist” tossed around today online like confetti at a parade, I know exactly what is happening. The word no longer describes a genuine belief in biological superiority or the desire to subjugate others. True hatred exists, but it is rare enough.
What we are witnessing instead is linguistic warfare.
Christopher Hitchens famously noted that “Islamophobia” was a word created by fascists and used by cowards to manipulate morons. He saw how a term could be weaponized to shut down rational debate, shield bad ideas from criticism, and bully dissenters into silence.
The modern expansion of “white supremacy” operates on the exact same mechanics.
It is a tool of covert, relational manipulation. In Montrealer Susan Pinker’s 2008 book on social behavior, The Sexual Paradox, she tells of how women tend to compete covertly using mean remarks, social exclusion, and by winning over friends and allies. Modern political discourse has adopted this exact strategy on a grand scale.
When someone labels you a “white supremacist” for simply pointing out a sociological reality such as homophily or the natural human pull toward one’s own group, it is a social strike.
It’s the ultimate shortcut to Godwin’s Law, formulated by attorney Mike Godwin in 1990, which asserts it is a matter of time in any online debate before someone compares their opponent to either Hitler or Nazism. These days, instead of arguing through a long back-and-forth until someone finally reaches for a Hitler comparison, the accuser drops the modern equivalent “white supremacist” early on, and sometimes right out of the gate.
The move short-circuits thought, signals loyalty to their own tribe, and attempts to paint you as equivalent to a moral monster responsible for historic atrocities. It bypasses open, direct conflict between men and replaces it with reputational poisoning.
It is also very much a “high school mean girls” low-blow tactic. Think about that.
It gets worse, for when a word is engineered to turn honest observations into total social exile, it ceases to be language and becomes a weapon of control. It’s how the Disordered and their Disciples attempt to ostracize, shame, and shut down both Defenders and the Disempowered to render them complacent and compliant.
Not you: such manipulations are for lesser men.
This is the day…
Stay powerful, true and free.
cw
