The Changing "Face" Of White Supremacy

Manipulating Language To Increase Hatred

The Portland Tribune reporter* asked me if I was a “white supremacist.” After I stopped laughing I reminded him that I was an educated professional woman (lawyer) and “white supremacists” were uneducated men. Dead silence on the other end of the phone. I could “hear” his mind reeling. He didn’t know how to respond. Then he blurted out: “how many ‘white supremacists’ do you know?” Through my laughter, I told him the FBI says there are only 20,000 “white supremacists” in the US and that means there are only four in Oregon. [This was in 2018, when we were living in a Portland suburb.] “Do you really think I know one of them,” I asked. More dead silence. I had shattered his world view.

That reporter was a 20-something young man. Back then, I couldn’t understand his stupidity. Now I do:

My readers no doubt got a good laugh out of the Los Angeles Times calling radio host and candidate for governor of California, Larry Elder, “the black face of white supremacy,” two years ago. Apparently, this delusion was written and published as a serious article. Where did such lunacy come from? Did the writer and the LA Times realize how absurd that was? The Left has been pushing “concept creep” for some time now and the writer and his newspaper editor fell for it. Or, perhaps they are intentionally pushing the hatred

Until Donald J. Trump announced his run for president in June 2015, the use of “white supremacy,” and “white supremacist,” and similar terms by Big Media, politicians, political pundits, etc. was limited to references to the FBI-identified 20,000 card-carrying white supremacists, and perhaps to Americans who made blatant statements such as “all blacks are stupid,” or “blacks are inherently inferior to whites.”

As a means of demonizing Trump and his supporters, Democrats, Progressives, Marxists, and their fellow travelers in Big Media and academia, expanded this term to include virtually anyone who opposed progressive policies, regardless whether the policy had anything to do with skin hue.

As with the made up terms “systemic racism,” “institutional racism,” and “structural racism,”^ the usage of “white supremacy” has been drastically expanded via rapid & ideologically driven concept creep, not through the natural process of language evolution which takes generations. [For example, when was the last time you heard the term “milk sickness?” Do you even know what it means? It fell out of use naturally as medical science evolved.] “White supremacy” quickly evolved into a vague and all-encompassing label. Instead of describing the demonstrably discriminatory ideas and actions of particular institutions or individuals, “white supremacy” is now understood by indoctrinated progressives to be the fundamental ethos of the America system as a whole, and is constantly repeated to create hate.

Whatever it used to mean, hate-filled Progressives claim “white supremacy” is now everywhere and applicable in any context. Big Media knows exactly what they are doing. They are partners in the Democrat Party’s goal of dividing Americans in pursuit of political domination & monopolization. Race is just one very disgusting example of their evil propaganda efforts.

*This reporter was interviewing me because I had filed an informal complaint with the Oregon State Bar over their threats to disbar Trump supporters. This complaint had nothing to do with race. Numerous attorneys filed similar complaints. The reporter chose me and one other attorney to interview.

^After a century-long battle, the GOP finally got the Civil Rights Act of 1964 through the House and the Senate and signed by a president. In 1974 President Nixon implemented Affirmative Action. With these two actions and many others, “systemic racism,” “structural racism,” and “institutional racism” were killed. By 2023 they were long dead. Too many Americans grift off the grievance industry and refuse to accept reality. They are sociopaths who care not that they are harming individuals and our society.