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Originally Posted by Red Slinger
If there was any doubt that White Supremacists are one of the biggest threats to American (and therefore Western) democracy, they should all but be squashed after the last 4 years.
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It's definitely a threat to democratic egalitarian values in a diverse society, but democracy has a very short history of actually being paired with equal access to the process. On the flip side, much of the history of the West is actually a history of white supremacy. Those white supremacist roots run much deeper than the egalitarian democratic values do and looking at these two things on a longer scale of Western history, white supremacy is a much more prominent feature of Western civilization.
As desirable as it may be to think we've put all that behind us in 2020, it doesn't seem likely in the grander arc of Western civilization that we have. In some ways, what I think we're actually seeing in the US is the possible expression of the reality that egalitarian democratic values are actually less valued than is white supremacy by a large part of the population and by many very powerful members of the population.