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I wasn't aware that our government was currently being run by white supremacists. Do you have a source?

https://www.npr.org/2019/11/26/783047584/leaked-emails-fuel-...

"For almost three decades, Jared Taylor has been publishing his ideas about race at the American Renaissance magazine and now at a website called AmRen, which is considered a mouthpiece for white supremacist ideology. ... The website is not well-known outside white nationalist circles — but it found an audience in White House adviser Stephen Miller."

To be fair the bar to be considered a white supermacist is very low in today's political correctness environment.

And what is your evidence of that?

I've personally been accused of being a neo-nazi on reddit because my username includes the number 88, which is only there because my wife's birth year is 1988 and I'm not creative enough to think of a unique name. I've seen the same frivolous accusations thrown around here as well.

The bar is so low that Jewish (like Stephen Miller) and even black (e.g. Ben Carson, Candace Owens) people are frequently called white supremacists. So low that people saying "It's ok to be white" were called white supremacists.

Does the term have any meaning now, or has it become simply a slur for anyone whose political beliefs differ, like "communist" or "terrorist" before it?

Agreed that there's risk in overuse which can lead to numbness for the real thing.

In some ways, I'd argue we should then be even more vigilant because white supremacist rhetoric / apologist sentiment and actions are having an easier time to hide behind the veils of fuzziness.

One comment though: you do not have to be white to be a white supremacist. White supremacy is the belief that white people are superior to people of other races, and should thus dominate them.

We see this pattern in other arenas too, e.g. gays and homophobia or women and gender bias.

This has no sources other than the SPLC's analysis of some leaked emails and selective quotations from them [1]. The SPLC has further examinations as well [2].

Look at the out-of-context quotes given in the first link and decide for yourself whether this is enough to justify a charge of being a white supremecist, even given that the article is explicitly dedicated to working towards that conclusion. Don't just take their word for it. I'll gladly concede that Miller is anti-immigration to the point of being xenophobic, but white supremecist is a huge stretch.

[1] https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/11/12/stephen-mille...

[2] https://www.splcenter.org/stephen-miller-breitbart-emails

The bar for proving that "America is run by white supremacists" needs to be a lot higher than, one guy in the white house reads a blog.

So Stephen Miller is a white supremacist now? He must be hiding it pretty well, since I've heard through hundreds of hours of his podcast with Raheem Kasam and he has never said anything remotely racist.

Stephen Miller, the one working in the White House, doesn't host any podcast. You are thinking of Jason Miller.

You're right, sorry about that one.

Last time I checked there is quite a lot of evidence pointing to him being a white supremacist: https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/13/politics/katie-mchugh-stephen...

Thanks for the link, I confused him with the chief strategist of trump campaign Jason Miller.

We should remind ourselves that white supremacy is the belief that white people are superior to people of other races, and that white people should thus be dominant over them.

In academics, white supremacy is a term to denote a system of structural racism which privileges white people over others, whether or not there's racial hatred.

You do not have to be white to be a white supremacist.

We can then critically evaluate what the current presidency and their network of advisers and influencers say and do. Some of the rhetoric and actions fall along lines other than white supremacy (e.g. xenophobia, nationalism, etc.), while others are less veiled.

Let's open our eyes, turn a mirror, and ask ourselves some hard questions: do I believe white people are superior? Do I benefit from a system that does and do I think anything should be done about it?

Here are 6 sources. Different incidents, different news organizations. There are hundreds more, but I got bored. Hell, his campaign was running an ad with the Nazi pink triangle (like the gold star, but for gays and liberals) last week. That didn’t even make my list.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/16/politics/white-supremacists-c...

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/23/735191317/white-supremacy-and...

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/01/trump-e...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/opinion/trump-white-supre...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/11/el-paso-shoo...

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/06/donald-trump-jr-rifle-magazi...

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