The Comfort of White Supremacy

Morning Comrades.

I believe I have written about this concept in the past but considering, that the last 3-4 years, and no further explanation is required, I wanted to re-introduce this concept on which much of white supremacy, specifically, the violent response of white supremacy in times when it is rattled. The concept, in academic circles that you can mostly ignore, is called the “right to comfort” and is mostly characterized as such:

• the belief that those with power have a right to emotional and psychological comfort.

• scapegoating those who cause discomfort, for example, targeting and isolating those who name racism rather than addressing the actual racism that is being named;

• demanding, requiring, expecting apologies or other forms of "I didn't mean it" when faced with accusations of colluding with racism;

• feeling entitled to name what is and isn't racism;

I highlighted the important part since, we, throughout the west, who have been figuring out that we are living through the final stages of the class war’s and have been doing what we can to dismantle these constructs of oppressive white supremacy need to understand just that: the capitalist superstructures rely on the racism and white supremacy and their right to comfort is what is being sold as the raison d'etre for their fascism.

Obviously, this is what makes the reality of White Supremacy so all over-bearing: the fact that the all encompassing European power structures from the Christian Churches to Politics and their Capitalists have spent the last 500 years plus unmeasurable wealth creating these social construct to exist solely to justify their violent greed - in short, they appear “normal” because they have been purposely “normalized”.

My humble of understanding of de-colonization is based around this idea, that whatever we construe as “normal” has its roots in a constructed racism that solely supports the land-owning classes. With that I wanted to write an introduction to this concept with a nod to the Marxian concept of alienation to offer some potential original flavour. I say so because these ideas and understandings are anything but original, on the contrary, wonderful scholars such as Angela Davis, Frantz Fanon and bell hooks, for starters, have committed their lives deconstructing these realities and we are all the better for it.

The more you know and all that.