What constitutes "white supremacy"?

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The concept of “white extinction” is solely a white supremacist/racist notion.

I hate antifa. Probably best not to go into it though with tensions running high.

I would go as far as to say that if anybody believes “white” is an ethnic group with common characteristics.....that that somebody is probably a racist.

Lack of knowledge .

That's nice, it doesn't change their history.

Independencee March two years ago in Poland was portraited in some media as a massive far-right manifestation.
Several people I know attended to it. It was a celebration of 100th anniversary of regaining independence. Journalists indeed found and photographed a far-right group but thousands of people on the march had nothing to do with them apart from attending the same celebration. From a point of view of a typical participant, the extremists weren't even visible.

I don't know about the marches you talk about. I'm just using it as an example I personally know, of how sometimes associations can be manipulated by media to make a desired impression. That's why I believe it's always worth it to listen to the other side's perspective.

Can you, please, elaborate?

Well, they all have white skin!

But yes, go to Europe, and there are many different white ethnicities with considerably different cultures.

Sicilians and Lebanese are often considered white and are often darker than some folks who generally are not considered white. Races don't really have solid definitions and this trend towards fuzzy borders is part of what makes them social constructs instead of biological realities.

Isn't Poland currently controlled by a far right government and dictator?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-right ... _in_Poland

I don't know if you agree, I have heard things like a lot of marginalization of LGBT people in Poland, that might not leave a lot of people realise how far-right certain things might be.

My understanding is that there's a fairly authoritarian, reactionary, nationalist government in power but that Poland still is a democratic state.

Our party in power is socialist economically and conservative - sometimes agressively - socially. They are doing a lot of damage but we remain a democratic state.
The current official situation of LGBT is scandalous here. We've been a rather conservative society with surprising amount of tolerance but then our ruling party made hating LGBT a proxy to siege mentality. That's a topic worth another thread. Harm done by populisms.

It's all quite unrelated to the Independence Day story, where people who just went there to celebrate got equated in some media to small extremist group also present there.

I just thought that perhaps that there could some relation of how LGBT people are seen to other conservative viewpoints, that maybe an event that was not previously a problem about national pride, might have a shifting tone that came with the new wave of right wing populism. Sure not everyone there is probably far-right, but could there be some form of cooptation of far-right groups that the lack of criticism of by the other people could be seen as a partial endorsement of their message.

National pride is not always a good thing, but you are always going to have people take things too far, and I suppose that it can be an increment shift from a celebration of freedom, to a call of what a true patriot is (no gays or foreigners?). I used to see national pride in my country as just that, but I have been jaded a little bit about what it can turn into.

In 2005 in Australia there was this event that became known as the Cronulla Riots, which had a lot of open appearances of acting like it was Aussie pride, something you would see on Australia day. But it was also kind of obvious from some of the common rhetoric that a lot of it was racially motivated, it was white typical Australians being angry about people who were not that. I have been a little turned off by some of the Australia day stuff since then, since it kind of looks like the ones who act most patriotic with Australian flags may be the exact same people who would want to get shout at foreigners to get out.

At least some foreigners took part of the celebration, too. When it comes to gays, we have a specific traditional concept of tolerance ("you're a sinner but it's neither mine nor the state's business to punish you") documented since at least 16th century and it's still alive... at least in some, quite wide, circles.
LGBT bashing got most intensive recently, after that anniversary, reaching culmination in this year's election campaign :disgusted:

I don't say we don't have some nationalists here. I was just refering to an event that was portrayed with so much prejudice that the description I read and the description I heard from people who were there got completely divergent.

Does it make me virtually bigoted if I dislike people who prefer to hate . Sorry not trying to derail thread,, just kinda. Popped out.

If ya gonna hate something , hate hate