via donsurber:
Kanye West is a white supremacist. Nick Fuentes is a white supremacist. But Bob Byrd was not a white supremacist because Obama showed up at his funeral.
Western civilization is a white supremacist.
Bump wrote, “When former Iowa congressman Steve King (R) said he was defending Western civilization, his explanation was usefully contextualized as being a shorthand for whiteness.”
Meanwhile, Mother Africa is revered. Recently, a TV network recast Cleopatra as a black woman — which offended Egypt and Egyptians. Well, Broadway culturally appropriated Alexander Hamilton as a black man, so why not?
Bump ended his whitesplaining column, “We don’t yet know specifically what drove Garcia to gun down shoppers in Texas on Saturday. But we do know that it is not at all impossible for someone with an Hispanic name to embrace white supremacist rhetoric.”
h/t Glenn