It doesn't seem to make sense to continue our discussion given your angry and defensive reaction. You even ignored the second half of the dictionary definition that YOU supplied, the very definition you used to dismiss the words that you put in my mouth, strawman words, not once showing you even tried to understand what I am actually saying. And no, you don't understand, but you don't want to understand. You would have to set aside your defensiveness and be open to considering uncomfortable thoughts.

On the other hand, as the other commenter pointed out, you wrote "Conservatives Can't Handle the Truth", so you very well understand how ego and our instinctive reactionary defense of our self-image are barriers to understanding truth.

And in "Can facts be racist?" you clearly understand that there is a systemic problem. What you are resistant to accepting, despite your liberalness, despite caring enough to write anti-racism blog posts, is the possibility that you have thoughts and perspectives and even values that still reflect the culture behind the "white nation, founded for and by the white man". If such a man as Abraham Lincoln, considered our greatest president, the man who led us into civil war against slavery and wrote the Emancipation Proclamation, was a white supremacist[1] (using your narrower definition!), is it not possible that you are not one, but nonetheless harbor at least remnants of such a mode of thinking? Is it not rational to think that someone who benefits from said system and culture is less inlined (if not inclined in the opposite direction!) to be aware of their own blindspots in this respect?

I in fact live in Bedstuy, one of the neighborhoods you mention in the latter blog post. And every year there are more and more white people moving in and more black people being pushed out. All these white people moving in are liberals, anti-racist and no doubt proudly tell their white friends that they live in a black neighborhood. But yet again white people are taking over something that they once rejected as undesirable and segregated blacks within, because now they consider it desirable (and profitable!). This isn't integration (that would be beautiful!). Integration is black and white segregation melting away as they move into each other's neighborhoods. That's not what's happening. White people are spreading outward, pushing black people further out. They don't send their white children to go to school with their black neighborhood children, instead sending them to white private schools. Imagine what that does to the psyche of a black child! The whites moving in don't patronize existing black businesses. They go to all the new white-owned upscale cafes and restaurants popping up, to expensive for most of the black people, and too much a betrayal for those who can. So you see a pockets of white people in white-tailored restaurants while black people eat at black places. NOT integration. The outspoken younger generation of black people here call these gentrifiers "colonizers", because they invade and occupy, same as before, only now using the tools of capitalism rather than guns (though we all know the latter makes the former possible). They also call it a manifestation of white supremacy. I call it "liberal white supremacy", to shine a light on the fact that scapegoating conservatives is just a way for liberals to push off all moral responsibility as the continue to benefit from the system.

My offer of a good faith discussion remains, but as I said, if your primary drive is defensiveness, it won't go anywhere useful, and will if anything push you toward those conservatives you criticize.

In any case, Peace.

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[1] There is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. ~ Abraham Lincoln, during the Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858