Nationalism and supremacy

In one of the first posts on this blog, I wrote:

Good lives on and adapts, but so too does evil…some of our darkest ideas, as a species, never seem to go away. Supremacy. Scarcity. Materialism. Individualism. Some folks say that those who do not know the past are doomed to repeat it - and perhaps they are right. Today, however, it is as clear as ever that the past is not done with us, and knowing it is not enough. The evils of the past are not gone, and will not be going away anytime soon.

The lie of my people - White Supremacy - lives on, adapting and thriving at every level of American society. The past, in our world, may not walk or talk as it does in the Malazan one, but that makes it all the more challenging to defeat. In those moments when we feel we may have finally vanquished it, are at our weakest. Sometimes the resurgence of our most evil ideas is so overwhelming, and so entrenched, that it confounds even our greatest thinkers. White Supremacy’s roots run deep.

Over the years I have come to understand that while White Supremacy is extremely powerful, and White Nationalism runs deep in my country’s roots, there are other kinds of supremacy and nationalism. They are on the rise, yes, but in many ways, they never left.