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Althouse at Zenith

"Why non-White people might advocate white supremacy" 

Philip Bump feels called to explain (at WaPo) after a man named Mauricio Garcia killed 8 people in a shopping mall in Texas. There's reason to think that Garcia held white supremacist/neo-Nazi beliefs because he wore a patch with the letters "RWDS," which, we are told, stands for "Right Wing Death Squad."

My response:

People like Bump think of "white supremacy" as a kind of stand-in for western civilization.  Normal people think of "white supremacy" as meaning white losers, coping with being losers by imagining that they are some sort of master race.

If a person has Nazi tattoos or wears patches in line with white supremacy as understood by normal people, it takes a weird leap of logic to assume that someone in this garb has much understanding about the principles of western civilization, let-alone any affinity towards it.

To put it more clearly, Bump's version of white supremacy was rejected by actual Nazis, so why would neo-Nazis be fans? 

Portraits

 John Singer Sargent American, 1856–1925

A couple of shots from the Chicago Art Institute visit from last month.

Madame Paul Escudier (Louise Lefevre)

Date:

1882

Mrs. George Swinton (Elizabeth Ebsworth)

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1897

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