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I can understand the practical realities of moderation in an anonymous online space in which such sentiments can quickly escalate to a personal level.
But we really need to kill racial ideology. I don’t think we should be that uppity about it.
We SHOULD be racist against “White people”!
Because it doesn’t exist in real life!
Why are we treating a colonial stratification of peoples into “races” and “ethnicities” at face value? Why are we offended like there is a global White genocide?
People in the global south don’t need white guilt. They don’t need self-flagellating whites on one hand and white supremacists on the other. They need “white people” to help tear down this globe-spanning economic and ideological system of stratification that has caused so much pain and suffering.
The hatred of white people is a hatred of this racist system of Capitalism that forcefully and continuously suffocates the entire world.
Mental colonization runs deep in postcolonial societies - and when the colonized lashes out, it is an expression of the humanity that has been denied. The least of my problems is when the oppressed uses the oppressor’s language to demonstrate the false justifications of the oppressor’s existence.
To phrase this another way to make it really on the nose: there are 1.5 billion Global Northerners, while there are 6.5 billion Global Southerners, and since might makes right, “white people” should really be the ones oppressed (lol).
So the "white" thing is interesting. White supremacists like to talk about "white culture" and "white identity," but in practice being "white" means having no culture and having no identity; whatever culture you originally possessed has been assimilated to the general American anti-culture of mass consumerism and social climbing. You have become the atomized individual, without family or communal ties, which is required by the capitalist machine. This evident in the way European immigrant to the US have historically not been considered "white" until their original culture is entirely lost; even the Germans, who are about European as European can be, were for a long time somewhat stigmatized as "Dutchmen."
In other words: people who are proud to be "white" are fighting for a cipher, something which, as you said doesn't really exist. Maybe in remote parts of Appalachia, say, there is something approaching a "white culture;" but even that is more a regional Southern thing than it is a "white" thing. White persons in (say) Washington or Seattle have little in common with it, and it seems to them quite foreign and "exotic."
My conclusion is that communists should stop using specifically usian terminology.