2025-09-19 05:22:00
White Supremacy is about forcing everybody to live a certain kind of life - heterosexual, 2-parent household, be Christian, submit to the man of the house, be a patriot, hold certain cultural values, among others. Being served by people of color and women is part of the domination sought by White Supremacy, but oppressing poor whites is part of it too.
To be clear - being straight, Christian, a patriot, or wanting a "traditional" life with a consenting partner is not White Supremacy. As long as your values apply to your own life and you respect that others will live differently, and support their freedom to do so, then you're not a Supremacist.
You're not necessarily bad or evil for being on the spectrum. I certainly was as a teenager and young adult, and I didn't even know it. When I first saw people posting about "Black Lives Matter" in 2012, my reaction was to go on Facebook and post that "All Lives Matter". (I'd have probably been a #2 at that time, but this was a #3 act.)
I thought my country was past racism, that we had fixed it with Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Act and the end of segregation. And rather than try to learn what BLM was about, I reacted, thinking it was anti-white, and opposed a modern civil rights movement.
My opposition - however ignorant, emotionally reactive, or well-intentioned - was a White Supremacist act.
So today I propose a spectrum of White Supremacy. If you find yourself on it, consider whether your position on the spectrum actually represents your values and what you want for the world. If not, then you need to reflect on your actions and opinions, and you need to learn about the things you oppose.
0 - Standing against White Supremacy with your vote, through discussions with friends and family, through protest, through advocacy in your workplace, by educating your children about America's Supremacist past, or through other means.
1 - Doing absolutely nothing to oppose White Supremacy. This allows it to fester and grow. You're part of the problem because you're not part of the solution. (Caveat: This is quite forgiveable if you are disabled or homeless or in an abusive relationship or facing some other hardship, in which case I might still class you as a #0.)
2 - Voting for White Supremacists for economic reasons or because you don't know they're White supremacists, falling for the fear-of-immigrants propaganda, falling for fear-of-gays propaganda, making excuses for White Supremacists, using slurs.
3 - Actively opposing measures that seek to end White Supremacy. (opposing Affirmative Action, opposing bills that improve access to voting, opposing bills that improve access to gender affirming care)
4 - Enacting or advocating for discrimination, segregation, suppression of civil rights, or suppression of speech about groups. (Trump, Charlie Kirk)
5 - Enacting genocide or advocating for genocide (Hitler, David Duke)
This list isn't perfect. If you're a #4 or #5, there's a good chance you're a bad person who wants to hurt or oppress others. If you're a #3, you might be an okay person who wants equality but you're on the wrong side and need to educate yourself. If you're a #2, then you probably are decent but need to educate yourself.
If you're a #1, then you also probably need to educate yourself more AND you need to get your feet in gear. Educating yourself can be very moving. Surrounding yourself with #0s can also be very moving.
If you're a #0, great job, keep doing what you're doing, don't burn yourself out, be kind and inviting and try to bring 1s and 2s into the fight against White Supremacy. You might even snag some #3s.
I think the #4s and #5s are a gross minority and they need to be opposed. I don't think there's any hope of converting them, and I don't think it's worth the effort.
And such a simplified list doesn't address how murky some things can be. Supporting a trans sports bans or opposing the right to choose abortion lands in #4. But you may be plenty progressive on other issues. Perhaps YOU aren't a #4 through-and-through, even if some of your positions are #4s.
Idunno. I don't have all the answers. I just made this shit up.
2025-09-13 02:22:00
I'm hot because of bigots saying trans people don't exist, that black women "stole" their positions from whites, because racial profiling is now legal, because our President blatantly and repeatedly violates the constitution, because of people saying that 10 year old rape victims should be forced to give birth, and so much more.
So when I hear that "we" need to lower the temperature, I hear victim blaming. I hear that we should stop trying to protect people. I hear that we should let the white supremacists win. No. YOU need to STEP UP, STAND UP, and get on the right side of history.
The White Supremacists need to back down, and their supporters need to turn against them.
That is how we lower the temperature, not by calming down but by fixing the problem.
Also Read: Mixed feelings about charlie kirk's death
2025-09-12 10:41:00
Bear with me.
I think Charlie Kirk was bad, harmful, and indirectly responsible for suffering and death. I think it's good that he is no longer preaching his white supremacist message. I think it's good that he is no longer advocating against trans existence. I think it is good that he is no longer encouraging harassment of women of color.
I don't think it's good that he's dead. I don't think it's good that somebody committed murder. I don't think it's good that his family suffered a loss or that the people at the event that day likely suffered trauma.
Is the good WORTH the bad? I don't know.
I wish the good could have come without the bad, without the violence.
I'm not happy about his death.
But I'm happy he's done promoting white supremacy. Both those feelings are in me, and it is ... unsettling.
On Charlie Kirk | Sam Schutte’s Blog
This post is a good read, worth hearing, worth considering.
But I want to challenge a message carried throughout it.
he never advocated for violence
...
But - do we want to live in a country where the bold, the opinionated and those who think differently than us must risk their lives to do so? I think not.
He did advocate for violence. Advocating for trans people's non-existence is advocating for genocide. Advocating for 10 year old rape victims to give birth is advocating for violence. Advocating for Jim Crow laws - "[Black People] were actually better in the 1940s" - is advocating for violence.
"Submit to your husband, Taylor. You're not in charge.” This is advocating for violence.
Sam, you raise good points that are worth considering, but you also whitewash his legacy. He didn't just "think differently than us". He advocated for deadly policies and a dictator who now runs our country. He was the figurehead of a white supremacist organization. Not a bold thinker. A White Supremacist.
Also Read: on Lowering The Temperature
2025-09-10 11:11:00
Currently (in the U.S.), you can incorporate an organization as a Not-For-Profit, a Corporation, an LLC, or one of a few other types of private for-profit corporations (specifics depend on the state).
If you incorporate, your bylaws dictate the governing structure, so worker-owned companies can be created and some do exist.
But my state has no formal legal apparatus for forming a worker-owned company or a community owned company, and I want one.
I want the official legal framework, along with administrative support (which private businesses and non-profits have). Then once some worker-owned and community-owned companies form, the government can give grants and contracts to these companies, which could encourage the growth of democratically-owned businesses.
It doesn't require tearing down capitalism, forcing any businesses to close or change their governing structure, and it isn't state-owned either. It just creates a new option that can be freely chosen by those seeking to start businesses.
I would support some city-owned and state-owned businesses (but not typically monopolies, except for some utilities like water or energy delivery, meaning city & state-owned firms would have to compete on the market), but that is another topic entirely.
Myy goal is to bring forward more socialism (as-in democratically-owned means of production), but in a practical and approachable way. If socializing goes well over the next decade or two, we could consider moving toward more heavy-handed socialization, but I think it's not necessary or realistic to jump to that right away. And hell, if socializing goes badly, we might reconsider.
2025-09-09 13:22:00
Like one voice is in charge.
Normally there's the chatter, the fighting for my attention. I don't know what to do because there's a thousand things all going at once. Some are on-task and some are not.
I second-guess and third-guess and fourth.
Every step is a battle between 4 different versions of myself.
But tonight it's quiet in my head.
I can hear them, I can feel them, vying for my attention.
Did you remember this? Remember to be guilty about that.
But tonight they are settled, calm, only asking not demanding.
Tonight it's quiet in my head.
They're still distracting, still pulling, and I know it won't last.
But I savor these moments where it's quiet in my head.
2025-09-09 01:50:00
When I see news about the economy being awful or how his policies are hurting working people, a part of me rejoices, for the hope that his economic failures will get people to vote against the Nazis.
And why isn't it enough that they're White Supremacists? It should be enough. Even if his economic policy were sound, we still shouldn't elect a nazi. Like come the fuck on.
But I can't count on people to vote against republicans for being nazis. My country, unfortunately, has an overwhelming history of white surpremacy and a lot of that still runs through our culture today. It's getting better in a lot of ways, but ... it's just like people don't seem to care? So what he's a nazi, stocks went up last time he was in office.
So yeah. I want him to be an abject failure so that we can kick out the nazis. I don't like that people have to be hurt in the process. But if his economy is successful, then Republicans will get to continue going after women and brown people and queer people ... fuck and poor working whites, too. He doesn't give a shit about poor working whites either, except to capture their votes by turning them against the working people of color and queers.
I wish my country were better than this.
