male presenting anglo canadian here, every interaction i have ever had is in some way tinged with white supremacy and male privilege. i've been treated better and assumed by default to be more competent than non-whites pretty much every day.
also like have you ever talked to another white person? if a white person or man talks to someone they assume shares their values they say the worst shit. i thought it was funny when libs were condemning trumps "locker room talk" defense like it's so unbelievable to them that men would discuss sexual assault like that in a male space. "i've never heard anything like that in a locker room." you are lying. most white men are thinking and saying the worst possible things at any given moment.
non-white people can tell by the way they are treated by white people and western society that white supremacy is the thread that binds the western world together. but if you look like them, they will just tell you straight up their terrible ideas assuming you will agree. if you cant figure it out when you actively benefit from it daily, if you cant notice that you're being held to a different standard by other white people daily, if you cant figure it out when they LOOK FOR EXCUSES TO TELL YOU, than i dunno how much self-crit is gonna help. at that point it seems like an empathy problem
if you identify as an anarchist or a communist and also identify with your whiteness, you missed something, probably a lot of things, along the way. try to be more perceptive geez.
love to my comrades of every skin colour and gender identity, death to the first world and any framework including race used to justify it
Coming from an area where it's mostly white people, I have to agree. I didn't grow up in a textbook racist community, but a lot of the older people I grew up around had some of that casual liberal racism. When I was a kid, if there was a non-white person, it was just assumed they weren't from around here. People would ask those ignorant questions like "where ya from?"
One of my first experiences with this was probably in first grade. There was another student who was of vietnamese heritage. He got asked "where ya from" all the time. He was from Detroit, so he seemed to get a kick out of telling people that and seeing their reactions before they would say "no really, where ya from?"
It's a lot more diverse around here now, and it's weird seeing gen x and older people who thought they were so different and interesting being all xenophobic. People who taught me to accept different people. The fewer people around, the more the mask slips too.
One of my favorite things about listening to the Trillbillies is their exact experience growing up is so similar to mine. They talk about being at work, and there's always that one guy who says casually racist/sexist stuff and you just kind of have to go "whatever man". You want to knock his front teeth in, but you need the job and can't handle an assault charge.