I really challenge you if you’re White to read all of this.
I People are trying to compare the Death of Henry Nowak to George Floyd and are trying to insinuate that people care more about black people than white people. Once again black people are used as a reference in relation to race relations in which black people aren’t even involved in. My theory is blackness is a universal common denominator that people unfortunately default to for whatever reason when talking about anything racial issues (i.e., black people are universally vilified. For example many thumbnails for videos on YouTube – often Right Wing in nature – about crime, immigration, pornography, etc., often features black bodies as threatening presences).
This stems in part from people’s jealousy or anger over the Black Lives Matter movement in modern times as the white working class realizes (or, does not realize) that elites (predominantly white such as Elon Musk) don’t see them as any more important or special. What real charity has a person like Elon done?
The White working class was content in simply knowing they were part of a “superior group” and were characters in some greater civilizational story arc, even if it meant their own exploitation by white elites, nobles, CEOs, etc. Basically “we may be poor but at least we aren’t some other race”. In other words, the wealthy made the white working class content and nostalgic rather than economically empowered, and a big part of this “nostalgic contentment” was feeling like part of an inside group in opposition to an outsider group.
European Civilization could be best understood as a fuedalist society in which fuedal Lords have been trying to suppress class consciousness. From encouraging illiteracy in the Dark and MiddleAges, to convincing the poor that God ordained the nobility, and even in the modern world going so far as violently suppressing labor and worker movements, the impetus of European civilization is a top-down fuedalist imperative where the poor majority either under threat of violence, eternal damnation, etc., or voluntarily (either consciously complicit or subconsciously coerced) gives up their power to elites.
What people seem to be forgetting as they compared Nowak to Floyd and push the “Two Tier Justice System” is… Black people don’t have the depth of institutional influence that white people do. Sorry but that’s true. Black people don’t control the cops simply put. Black people still make up a large percentage of the jailed population so it’s not like black people are conspiring to keep black people out of jail if they really had the power to do so. White people are in a sad depression state and seem desperate for a White Civil Rights movement because they still seem mostly incapable of realizing it’s conservative elites who screw them over.
Sure, liberal Social Justice Warriors may create annoying policy ideas but materially, it’s the conservative elites screwing over the white working classes and non white working classes. The follies of SJWs if anything feeds back into conservatives due to backlash over policies or rhetoric.
The people comparing Nowak to Floyd are appropriating the parts of George’s death they want to meet their own purposes, and some of those purposes are steeped in nativism and nationalism.
I would ask people with this sentiment, “Did you support George Floyd when he died?”.
George Floyd’s death was mocked and turned into caricature online. People didn’t think George was worthy of life because of his addiction and street life.
The big difference between the Nowak and Floyd case Is Floyd was killed by a cop with that cop applying force to body of Floyd. Nowak’s death was negligence. The cops didn’t seem to have disgust for Nowak but rather applied gross negligence to the situation. Derek Chauvin was trying to show Floyd who was boss by using a controversial submission move. Chauvin meant to dominate the body of Floyd “the big black scary guy”.
It’s also interesting that Novak is of Polish origins. Poland symbolically has been appropriated by the Right Wing and Far Right as being exemplary of “White, Western Christian Europe”. Many Right Wing sites use Polands conservative, anti immigration, and alleged “anti George Soros” stances to be a “Crusader State” against diversity, Islam, feminism, etc. So, Nowak will likely be a martyr to this Alt Right community and thus feed into a larger agenda of White Identitarian politics and Zionism against Muslim and non-Whites.
NOTES BY AUTHOR ON GROWING UP WITH WHITE PEOPLE AND HOW WHITE PEOPLE OFTEN CAN’T SEE THE ILLS OF CAPITALISM
I like white people. Grew up in majority white areas. Friendships, sleep overs, helping white grandmas move furniture, and sometimes being the only black person at predominantly white gatherings or parties. I crushed on girls where I knew her dad wouldn’t accept me, etc.
I care for white people and this isn’t to pander but show genuine concern.
One thing I know about “white frustration” is that white people as a race aren’t collectively spoken to but this because white people are the innocuous system for lack of better words. White people eveb call themselves the “silent majority”, but a majority with institutional power cannot collectively be oppressed. It’s assumed white people have institutional and economic power, so society is de facto white without saying it.
Chuck Palanuik, author of Fight Club, in his collection of short stories, Stranger Than Fiction, talks about whiteness as being the equivalent of wallpaper. It’s everywhere, wraps the entire room (system), but goes unnoticed and this unnoticeable nature
I feel like I know white people including their bottled up anger. I’ve seen the good and ugly. I’ve heard every complaint. I’ve also experienced racism.
Honestly, the white working classes are falling for old tricks when really white working class are key allies in a better future. And, yes a future where we can transcend beyond race.
And, the Left, tough I like the Left and consider myself of it, did alienate many white people, but I feel the growing pains of the “Woke Era” are over. White people need to stop sulking over terms like white privilege, white fragility or toxic masculinity because there is truth in these terms, and even though an individual white person may feel they don’t have these things nor perpetuate them, these concepts were analyzing a very real and constructed system, often Colonial in nature which elevated one group over others as the others were either enslaved or their nations occupied militarily while having their resources stolen. The messengers of these terms may have been annoying at times but message was still important.
But white people have an addiction… which is whiteness. A sort of “white blood cell defensive” “purity” worship which operates simultaneously under a a victim based paranoia of racial extinction mixed with an offensive sense of superiority.
It’s a cult of color worship.
White people largely conquered the world and with that came privilege but also…a lot of damage.
Many white people understand this and are sensitive to the fact whereas others are content with being bigots and supremacists.
But regardless, my belief is many white people only care about their “social dividend of whiteness” even it means they are exploited by the predominantly white elites.
As white people feel their social status waning (allegedly), instead of looking up, they instead see “race war” or other nonsense.
This white paranoia is what keeps the system the same I’d argue.
A lot of people want a “White Civil Rights” movement because they feel minorities have an unfair advantage such as having the benefit of the doubt when it comes to altercations or getting sympathy and adoration. This is a bit ridiculous considering Western nations are still predominantly white and business, finance, policing, the arts, academia, land, and generational wealth are still overwhelmingly white.
This White Identitarian movement is a larger trend being bolstered by the Right Wing media notably in the US and UK because MAGA, Brexit, the Zionists, Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA, Cambridge Analytica, the Manhattan Institute, the Claremont Institute, and the web of other Right Wing organizations have an agenda.
That agenda being to push the “Clash of Civilizations” narrative in order to enshrine white supremacy and Zionism.
In Europe, war refugees caused by NATO, Isreal and, yes, Russia, flooded Europe with many scared war-torn people but also many unemployed men wanting to get out of their impoverished nations. In the USA because of free trade, outsourcing, and aging population, rising costs, and instability in Latin America the USA has shifted from a “White and black” country to a more Asian and Hispanic nation.
Europe is unique because it’s more about religion considering many refugees are Muslim. This isn’t as much of the case in the USA where it’s more about a predominately traditional WASP, Black Protestant American, and “Ellis Island European culture”, giving way to a Hispanic Catholic and Southeast Asian demographic shift.
The goal of the elites, which has a strong faction of Zionists, wants Islamophobia to rise so the West stays aligned to Israel and its ambitions of cleansing Palestinian Muslims and pushing the Greater Israel Project.
This Network of Elites I call the “ACZS” or “ACZSE” Network if you’ve read my other works. “Anglo-American, Continental, Zionist, Saud, and Emirati” Network. It operates like a trans-national syndicate of “mafia” families who work together (but also compete) and the Zionists just so happen to be one of the stronger forces which others rally around. Zionists and Israel serves as a central conduit for the other factions to use such as the US UK using Israel to have a Middle Eastern presence, or the Saudis allying with Israel to undermine their Shia competitors, etc. Israel’s fascism justifies the other’s own fascism and vice versa, but all factions agree on global Western dominance.
This is the conspiracy of the rich.
And, of course racism is being pushed by racist who don’t have power but also racial division is part of government intelligence agency strategy to stir up unrest, e.g., how Russian, Iranian, Chinese or even American bot farms pay people to “troll online” by pretending to be people they aren’t and to agitate.
As A.i. models get more complex these “agitation bots””appear more real and companies like Meta (Facebook) don’t care since they get paid by advertisers who need people addicted to the app.
The elites who control all of this need the white working class warring against minorities which these elites both exploits notably in late stage capitalism where the elites have hijacked Central Banks, automated labor away, etc.
Capitalism is running out of ideas and as capitalism innovatess it ironically replaces the labor people need to survive, but people still neeed jobs to pay for privately held assets as their homes.
Western industrusl nations are feeling the squeeze of their own efficiency but the same fuedalist underpinnings of life still persist, i.e., you have bills to pay in an economy where your job is under competitive and innovative pressures.
Since people still need money to pay for increasingly expensive assets, this pressure increases moral decay, crime, etc.
The rich know this.
They have already won The Monopoly Game but why would they stop playing? They don’t want Utopia where Capitalism served a purpose. They don’t want the state, “systems theory” or control (e.g., the arbitrary 40 hour work week) to wither away (a concept similarly postulated in the competing Communist ideology) so we can transcend to some new model of economic arrangements, rather they’re forcing us to play with a gun to our heads.
The game is the paradigm we live and the rich need us still playing to justify the wealth they’ve accrued which is mostly backed by inflationary fiat currency and credit taxed upon the working classes.
But, don’t worry, they already own gold and Bitcoin too, so they win either which way.
When the Rich realizes that people are catching on, they go full Nazi.
They push xenophobia, us vs them, chauvinism a.k.a., toxic masculinity (e.g., by misdirecting unemployed male labor towards militarism), and they push a fear of the future they ironically push upon us because frankly, the rich want aristocracy.
The future as a concept under capitalism is not about the future but rather the future as an idea is a byproduct of technological innovation which was meant to suppress workers. But the “future” as a concept is sold as a dream even though the underlying impetus of the future still relies on exploitation.
They, the rich, want the church and state merged. They want to erase democracy and go back to generational rule by nobility. This is conservativsm. Going back to the past where Hierarchy and obedience via religion, patriarchy and violence protects the nobility. All the nobility needs to do is give us crumbs of culture and belonging.
When you add all of this to my statements about a “capitalist future”, what the rich want is a Synthesis between past and future which equates to the term “techno-fuedalism”.
But, the angry white working class are doing what they always do.
They bicker over which minorities are getting attention or love but fail to look upward at the wealthy who are disproportionately white.
Black or Arab men didn’t create the Rust Belt in the USA or derelict steel mills I’m the English midlands. Trans people didn’t privatize your pensions so now they vulnerable to swings in the stock market.
As capitalism festers under post Industrialism and late-stage capitalism, the wealthy get richer and working class whites are left only with the “social dividend of whiteness”.
Working class whites have always been the gaurd dogs of the Elite whites, and the rich convinced the white working class to shift their chargin to outsiders.
Working whites were content to simply feel part of a culture and have purpose, and the rich exploited this by giving them nationalism so they never developed class consciousness against the rich.
The White poor essentially felt being white was good enough and at least they weren’t minorities.
The least productive white person gets associated with white excellence whereas the hardest working black person gets lumped on with black criminality. That’s white privilege.
Many white people are fine with just being part of a superior group even it means their individual life is exploited by white elites.
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