To stand up against the poison of white supremacy as I did my inaugural address to a single out as the most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland is white supremacy.

It's more dangerous than the threat of nuclear war with Russia. It's more dangerous than the threat of the Mexican drug cartels, who've already killed hundreds of thousands of Americans and are now in control of swaths of our southwestern states.

This threat to abortion rights is coming from white supremacy and white male supremacy in particular.

White supremacy that's as rare as a leprechaun. I mean, it happens, but somebody saw a leprechaun once. I mean, it's going on. It's very rare.

And to selectively erase non-white elements of that history is by definition a product of white supremacist thinking. So the larger point here is that white people, or the West, has been responsible for a ton of great innovations and inventions over the span of our history. But in no way do non-white and non-Western people need to thank them for it. This is a profoundly fucked up way to look at the world, as if Alex somehow deserves credit for someone who shares his skin pigment doing something a thousand years of the past. I'd like to propose a healthier way to look at things, and that is to honor and celebrate the people from all cultures across the world who have helped lead us to where we are today in terms of our understanding of the world and our mastery over flight and the elements. Because I think that's a better way to look at things. We've all shared in this history some of the things that the Islamic world did have helped create... Stones upon which the Western world could use as staircases up. And as we all know, if it weren't for Aang, we wouldn't have control over the elements. I'm guessing that's a Dragon Ball Z reference. No! God damn it! Airbender? Airbender. Okay. Got it on my second shot. But there is a collaborative effort. Aang and Katara, of course. There's a collaborative effort that goes on, and the idea of ascribing any history of, like, these fucking browns should thank all of us white people for planes and medicine, it's disrespectful to the people who are instrumental in creating the reality that we have now. Like, if you just want to pretend that the people who created the jet engine did it out of nowhere... Then what you're doing is erasing everything that came before it. Right. And in doing that, you're erasing the contributions of largely non-white people. And that is white supremacy.

But I don't see how this doesn't further expand the ability to have a minority rule. And the minority is white supremacists. But they have cheated. They have cheated. They have twisted. They've gerrymandered. They've done all of this stuff to make sure that white supremacy remains in power as opposed to, you know, and then we have an ineffective Democratic Party that's going to be like, hey, hey, white supremacy is bad.

You could make an argument that supports white identity for or against welfare. You could create a public school system improvements argument based on white supremacy.

I read somebody recently who put forth a solid statistical argument for white supremacy showing up in full strength every 30 years. Yeah. Like, it may just be correlation, but his main point was like, all right, so we got a shit ton of white supremacy now.

Which is the cruelty in both cases is a function of white supremacy.