White supremacy. It's not just for whites anymore

Police say Mauricio Garcia, 33, shot and killed 7 people and wounded 7 more at a mall in Texas. A cop killed Garcia.

Philip Bump of the Washington Post, which is owned by Jeff Bezos, blamed white supremacy. His proof was a patch the accused wore which had the initials RWDS on it.

But the square facts did not fit the round narrative, so Bump hammered them in.

Bump whitesplained, “For many people, this idea triggered an immediate negative reaction: how could someone with the name Mauricio Garcia — a Hispanic name — be a white supremacist? In some quarters, that The Post was offering such a possibility was somehow demonstrative of this newspaper’s purported interest in elevating unsupported racial claims.

“In reality, the idea that someone named Garcia might be sympathetic to white supremacist views is unexpected but not inexplicable. The Post has previously explored the ways in which non-White Americans at times ally with extremists who would seem to be their natural enemies. But the point can be made succinctly by considering two things: White is not as hard-and-fast a racial category as many assume and white supremacy is about power as much as it is about race.”

Bump and the Bezos Post admitted something astonishing. White supremacy is not just for whites anymore. That — according to Bezos and his henchmen — non-whites can join white supremacy shows racial equality. BLM tells its white supporters to move to the back of the line.

White supremacists have replaced Hitler. No longer is everyone a liberal doesn’t like Hitler; he is a white supremacist. And so one meme dies so another might live.

NBC declared the gunman to be anti-Semitic. So is Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam that Democrats enlist from time to time. Doesn’t that his anti-Semitism make him a white supremacist?

Farrakhan also said, “White people are potential humans — they haven't evolved yet,” so he needs a little more work on his white supremacy.

By accepting anyone as a member, white supremacists are truly colorblind — a word that Bump and his fellow travelers dismiss as racist.

Fitchburg State University announced, “Colorblindness is the racial ideology that posits the best way to end discrimination is by treating individuals as equally as possible, without regard to race, culture, or ethnicity.

“At face value, this belief appears to not only amounts to a dismissal of the lived experiences of people of color, but also suggests that racism does not exist so long as one ignores it.

“However, within the context of enduring structural and systematic racism, racial colorblindness serves as a device to disengage from conversations of race and racism entirely.”

Liberals are weird. Bump’s position on white supremacy is goofy enough to get on The View, should he ever decide to trans into Lia Bump.

I offer as proof chubby Ana Navarro, who said on The View, “We all have to remember, the head of the Proud Boys, his name is Enrique Tarrio. The Proud Boys is a white nationalist group. Look, being Hispanic or being black or being anything does not make you immune from being racist, from being radicalized, from being a white supremacist, from being evil, from being homicidal, and we are seeing it over and over again.”

Thus just as white is redefined as being any color, so supremacist has been redefined as someone who simply disagrees with a liberal. Put the two words together and you have what the Bezos Post and the rest really mean: Trump supporter.

Bump wrote, “One of the most prominent adherents of white supremacy in the United States at the moment is the right-wing agitator Nick Fuentes. Former president Donald Trump earned days of negative press after Fuentes joined the musician Ye and Trump for dinner at Mar-a-Lago. The last name Fuentes is Hispanic, as is Fuentes’s family background.”

Kanye West is a white supremacist. Nick Fuentes is a white supremacist. But Bob Byrd was not a white supremacist because Obama showed up at his funeral.

Western civilization is a white supremacist.

Bump wrote, “When former Iowa congressman Steve King (R) said he was defending Western civilization, his explanation was usefully contextualized as being a shorthand for whiteness.”

Meanwhile, Mother Africa is revered. Recently, a TV network recast Cleopatra as a black woman — which offended Egypt and Egyptians. Well, Broadway culturally appropriated Alexander Hamilton as a black man, so why not?

Bump ended his whitesplaining column, “We don’t yet know specifically what drove Garcia to gun down shoppers in Texas on Saturday. But we do know that it is not at all impossible for someone with an Hispanic name to embrace white supremacist rhetoric.”

It reminds me of the time Don Lemon asked an aviation expert if a blackhole could have swallowed the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 aircraft.

Anything is possible if you ignore the laws of physics — or in the case of a Bezos Post scribe, ignore the meaning of words.

Bump’s stupidity isn’t original. Eight days after the January 6 protest, Forbes told readers, “Speaking of Black Indigenous people of color, there is a commonly held belief that only white people uphold white supremacy. This is one of the most deceptive myths about white supremacy because it prevents BIPOC from exploring and examining the ways that they may individually sustain white supremacy. Just because you identify as a person of color doesn’t prevent you from propagating white supremacist views and ideologies.

“White supremacy in BIPOC communities often manifests as white adjacency: the act of aligning with whiteness and distancing yourself from your ethnic and racial identity in order to gain access and opportunities. White supremacy can also manifest as colorism, which is a persistent issue within India, Latin America, Africa and nearly every community of color. A mother who tells her daughter not to play out in the sun because her skin will get too dark is upholding white supremacy and subtly reinforcing the belief that proximity to whiteness via lighter skin makes a woman more beautiful. BIPOC can both uphold white supremacy and possess anti-black views. They are two sides of the same coin.”

Or as Biden said, “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”

The woman who wrote the Forbes piece is white.

Just like Biden.

Just like Bump.