No, really! It IS! Quit shaking your head at me – serious business here.

The Experts™ told me it was, so I’m running with it.

Look at all these skeptics!

Are the @latimes arguing that white supremacy is diverse & inclusive of all colours? Even @TitaniaMcGrath couldn’t match this. https://t.co/jG2kJ372wb

— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) January 5, 2023

Now, there’s a lot to unpack in an article filled with oppressed victim grievance argle-bargle, but I’ll do my best. For starters, let’s let the ladies who had the cathartic discussion transcribed in this piece lay out who they see as the faces of “white supremacy.”

Kanye West. Nick Fuentes. Herschel Walker. Kyrie Irving. Enrique Tarrio.

If 2020 was the year that George Floyd’s murder made us confront systemic racism and 2021 was the year that made us face right-wing terrorism, then 2022 was the year that blew up our collective assumptions about what extremism looks like in the United States.

Hate comes in all colors.

Not exactly who springs to mind when I think of white supremacists, but I’m still in literal mode. Oh, and of course – George Floyd. They couldn’t possibly go without mentioning his death while emoting about white/rightwing anything (but how odd there’s no mention of the death and destruction whipped up in the wake of it). Somehow they carry right past that horrific summer into a RW terrorism theme for the following year, which morphs into, I guess, seeing white supremacists -whatever skin hue they might actually be – behind every tree in their fever dreams this year. 2022’s boogeyman, if you will.

But the first example they criticize and use to illustrate the colors of white supremacy shows how unserious and absurd their premise is.

…Last year, you wrote about Larry Elder being the “Black face of white supremacy” when the talk radio show host ran for governor, hoping to replace Gavin Newsom. California voters overwhelmingly rejected Elder in that recall election. So were you surprised to hear Republicans of color from other states mimic his inflammatory rhetoric on the campaign trail in 2022?

Larry Elder – and most sane people when they first heard that phrase – guffawed at the utter inanity of it. So much so, that Elder used her ludicrous assertion repeatedly in interviews, it was that good for a laugh.

For the record, City Journal did a deep dive into Smith and others’ claims about “his inflammatory rhetoric.”

Playing the Race Card on Larry Elder
Engaging in shameful duplicity regarding crime and policing, the media attempt to portray the California gubernatorial candidate as anti-black.

…The media have focused particularly on Elder’s views about crime and policing. The self-described “Sage from South-Central” maintains that criminals, not the police, are the biggest threat in the black community. According to Elder, the false narrative about lethal police racism has only led to more black homicide deaths. “When you reduce the possibility of a bad guy getting caught, getting convicted and getting incarcerated, guess what? Crime goes up,” he said recently at a campaign event in Orange County.

Elder also rejects the charge that white civilians are gunning down blacks, as LeBron James maintained in a tweet during the George Floyd riots: “We are literally hunted everyday, every time we step outside the comfort of our homes.” Elder has a different take. If a “young black man is eight times more likely to be killed by another young black man than [by] a young white man,” Elder told the Orange County Republicans, then “systemic racism is not the problem.”

The dismissive racism inherent in author Erika Smith’s rejection of a political philosophy that doesn’t fit hand in glove with her perpetual racial grievances seems to be the default position for these people. You can see where Elder’s denunciation of the unending victimhood claims might torque her shorts.

Column: Larry Elder is the Black face of white supremacy. You’ve been warned

…I won’t lie. Few things infuriate me more than watching a Black person use willful blindness and cherry-picked facts to make overly simplistic arguments that whitewash the complex problems that come along with being Black in America.

…As longtime political consultant Kerman Maddox put it: “Larry Elder goes out of his way to be at odds with the leadership in the Black community and at odds with the thinking in the Black community.”

Like a lot of Black people, though, I’ve learned that it’s often best just to ignore people like Elder.

People who are — as my dad used to say — “skinfolk” but not necessarily kinfolk.

Yes, yes, yes – we all know “Black community” membership is meant to be a monolith ruled by the Erikas – and Coreys – of the collective…

FWIW, @ByronDonalds is not a historic candidate for Speaker. He is a prop. Despite being Black, he supports a policy agenda intent on upholding and perpetuating white supremacy.

His name being in the mix is not progress—it’s pathetic.

— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) January 4, 2023

…with casual and unforgivable Uncle Tom-like epithets thrown out when legitimate criticism slips away.

Ms. Smith continued her assault on faux members of the Black community in the mean girls’ tantrum disguised as an op-ed today.

… Anyone of any race can be a prop, a tool or an enabler of white supremacy — and there have always been volunteers, because proximity to whiteness often pays. That’s not to say people of color are a monolith of left-leaning political affiliation. There have always been Black and Latino conservatives, for example.

But as Republicans continue their quest for non-white candidates and influencers, hoping to prove — usually in the most superficial ways — that their party isn’t racist, the people who are making money off this divisiveness are increasingly out in the open. 2023 will make this impossible to ignore.

Speaking of quests, can we talk for a moment about California attorney Harmeet Dhillon running to be chair of the Republican National Committee?

…and wait, whut?

HARMEET DHILLON is a white supremacist ?!

The other voice in today’s piece – Anita Chabria – sails right over the edge when it comes to Harmeet.

…Personally, I see in Dhillon what you see in Ye — someone benefiting from proximity to whiteness who will ultimately be unpleasantly surprised. Extremists might play nice with people of color along the way, but they will have little need for equality or even tolerance if they solidify power.

Oh, enough already with your nonsense.

Following the logic and guidelines set out clearly by the authors here, any skin hue other than pale who is a conservative/Republican or expresses an opinion contrary to the approved message of the “Black community” is a white supremacist (besides Uncle Tom, token, tool etc. -all that other lovely stuff they freely revile people with) or happy to cozy up to such in order to bask in reflected white glory.

It sounds as if this is one of those sessions where activists get together and try to verbally out-think each other – each wanting to sound deeper and more profound than the previous voice. The self-indulgence invariably results in gibberish and exposes them for what they are – vacuous, hate-filled narcissists.

The twisted, vicious, poisonous drivel these two women spew is a textbook example of why we can’t have nice things. In the first place, they take truly legitimate targets for denunciation – anti-Semites, true supremacists, and racists of all stripes, groups who bear close watching – yet mix in persons of all races who have committed no sin other than have different political philosophies than theirs.

I will note those targets have been threats to the status quo in many instances. Asking uncomfortable questions, seeking change where those at the helm want none – it’s not a mistake their names are in an incoherent hit piece.

The authors then bundle them all – every last name dropped and chewed over – under the “white supremacist” umbrella in a transparent and intellectually lazy effort (added bonus of defaming/gaslighting everyone they don’t like) purely to perpetuate and champion the narrative that…

W-H-I-T-E

…is the root of all evil.

Even when it’s no longer white.

A Woke World where men are women, hot is cold, and white supremacy is multiracial.

See how that works?

I don’t either. Because it doesn’t.

That the LA Times gives them a forum for the race-baiting exercise?

How are those subscription numbers doing, dudes?