# White Supremacy is not a rhetorical tactic, ZPG\_Zealot

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**Created:** [September 12, 2020, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-supremacy-is-not-a-rhetorical-tactic-zpg-zealot/920396 "2020-09-12T06:05:19Z")\
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> [@ZPG\_Zealot](#):
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> Actually in way, black people weaponized it against themselves by making it such a taboo term.

Ooooof course.

🙄

And thank you for providing me with an extreme example of the sort of “they did [or are doing] it to themselves” nonsense I was trying to forestall in the “meritocracy” thread:

> [@Is meritocracy overrated?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-meritocracy-overrated/817385/229):
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> So your position is that the government needs to figure out a way to change the black community, not that the government needs to figure out a way to change itself? Because that’s the read I’m getting. You’re not the first person I’ve encountered making such a claim, but I don’t think it’s nearly as enlightened as you might imagine.
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> It’s just one more way of saying “the problem is with the community at disadvantage: if they are disadvantaged, it’s because they are disadvantaging themselves.” It’s only slightly less disingenuous, to my view, than opining that their “culture” must value poverty.

Classic racism.

ETA: Had to add emoji and some additional punctuation to make it clear I’m being sarcastic on certain points, because it’s getting hard to tell in this thread. A man can only stand so much vitriolic inanity before he loses all sense, you know?

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