re: #254 Jay C

A good piece, but I think Serwer condenses the concept a bit: Myself, I think the case is more that “White Supremacy”, then as now, is more of a pan-national/supra-national movement: that the high-minded intellectualization of racism (and its introduction into countries’ immigration/citizenship legal systems) which began in the late 19th Century wasn’t so much a matter of one country “inspiring” another, but of all the racially-based enactments stemming from a single pool of sources: each nation adopting whatever principles they thought would fly with the (white) citizenry.

“White” changes definition as needed to either maintain or disrupt the status quo.

It really doesn’t mean anything except “us.”