[Content Note: White supremacy; racist apologia.]
Something I'm seeing a lot of in discussions of Dylann Roof's terrorist act is white people expressing a shocked inability to understand him. Which, in some cases, is simply ignorance born of unexamined white privilege, but in lots of cases is the rehearsed expression of a performance all white people know, because we are all taught to do it as part of our indoctrination into white supremacy.
We pretend that we don't understand, in order to create distance from white people like Dylann Roof, to separate ourselves, and to uphold the lie that white supremacy isn't active and proximate in all of our lives.
All white people are intimately connected to white supremacy.
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