The Daily Beast has pretty much admitted that “White Supremacist” is a made up term.

It’s not that there are not and have not been genuine White supremacists. It’s just that “White supremacy” has become a term like “woman;” the Left has taken the syllables we all thought we understood and replaced the meaning with something entirely different.

As I am sure you have realized, language is a weapon for the Left, not a tool intended to help people communicate. As a weapon it is extremely useful, since most people still believe in reality.

You are about to get a quick and dirty lesson on how Critical Theorists screw with your mind.

Most of us have a pretty clear idea of White Supremacy means and who White supremacists are. White supremacists believe that white people are racially superior to other racial groups and thus have a right to dominate them. It share a basic genealogy with eugenicism–a belief that a specific group of people have or can acquire an intellectual, moral, or physical superiority through breeding.

Whites, as a distinct group, are argued to have already achieved a level of superiority to other groups that they at the very least could serve the role of parents to children (the most benign version) to something as repulsive as believing that Whites have a right to exterminate “inferior” races.

Wherever a White supremacist is on this spectrum of attitudes, all are united by a belief that race is determinative of worth. They believe White people are better than others.

That is what normal people understand by the term, more or less.

Not the critical theorists at the Daily Beast, who inform us that “young men of color” are becoming White supremacists. In a sane world that is impossible.

By this they do not mean that these young men of color actually believe they are inferior to and should be led by Whites. Oh no. That would be ridiculous, but at least fit the definition you and I have of the term.

Instead they mean that these young men of color are joining young white men in rebelling against the ridiculous “anti-racist” critical race theory ideology that has swept the cultural Elite.

In other words, “White supremacy” is simply a group of syllables that means “people I hate.” They are counting on normal people hearing those syllables assuming that they have the same meaning that everybody else uses.

Outfitted in a flak jacket and fighting gloves, Enrique Tarrio was one of dozens of black, Latino, and Asian men who marched alongside white supremacists in Portland on Aug. 4.

Tarrio, who identifies as Afro-Cuban, is president of the Miami chapter of the Proud Boys, who call themselves “Western chauvinists,” and “regularly spout white-nationalist memes and maintain affiliations with known extremists,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Last month, prior to the Patriot Prayer rally he attended in Portland, Tarrio was pictured with other far-right activists making a hand sign that started as a hoax but has become an in-joke. Last year, Tarrio said traveled to Charlottesville, Virginia, for the Unite the Right rally that ended with a neo-Nazi allegedly killing an anti-fascist protester. (The Proud Boys said any members who went to the event were kicked out.)

The symbol he painted on a sign that is so awful? The OK sign.

Scary stuff. Really scary. And the SPLC is a propaganda organization. I trust them as much as I trust David Brock.

The Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer, which overlap, embrace an America-first nationalism that is less pro-white than it is anti-Muslim, anti-illegal immigrant, and anti-Black Lives Matter. “Proud Boys is multi-racial fraternity with thousands of members worldwide,” a lawyer for the group’s leader, Gavin McInnis, said in a statement. “The only requirements for membership are that a person must be biologically male and believe that the West is the best.”

Daniel Martinez HoSang, associate professor at Yale University, co-author of the forthcoming Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity, says “Multiculturalism has become a norm in society” and has spread from corporations and consumer culture to conservatism and the far-right.

Indeed, Patriot Prayer’s leader is Joey Gibson, who is half-Japanese and claims Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as a hero. But his agenda is the opposite of King’s. Gibson’s rallies have attracted neo-Confederates and neo-Nazis.

I have no desire to join these groups, but clearly they don’t qualify as White supremacist. Their unifying principle isn’t race but rather a cultural point of view, described in the phrase “West is best.” If you can be black, Asian, hispanic, or white, clearly race isn’t the unifying idea.

I actually happen to agree with them that the West is best, and frankly so do the transnationalists. We have a very different idea of what parts of Western culture should be emphasized, but we share much more in common than we do with, say, traditional Muslims or even Orthodox Jews. We believe in largely secular governance, for instance. Their intellectual heritage is rooted in Continental philosophy while mine stem mainly from the Scottish enlightenment, but both are fundamentally part of the Western cultural tradition.

The transnationalists are Marxists, while I am a classical liberal. Both are Western.

Transnationalists are not actually multiculturalists; they use multiculturalism to separate individuals from their cultural roots. Think Ilhan Omar, who makes a big show of being a traditional Muslim woman in dress and uses her Islamic identity as garb; a twice divorced sexually liberated woman has less in common with traditional Islam than a traditional Catholic does. It is a show. Omar is a transnational socialist.

Indeed, moderate Muslims in the United States understand this very well. They understand that critical theorists pushing CRT, Transgenderism, and a anti-liberal agenda are as large a threat to them as to tradition American culture. That is why Catholics, evangelicals, and Muslims can coexist well in pushing for things like school choice.

Critical theory is the leading edge of post-Modernism. Post-modernism is as Western as Liberalism, but its goal is transcending or replacing traditional Western culture. It is Marxist, and has its ultimate roots in the French Revolution. It does in a sense see all cultures as essentially equal, but only in the sense that all are equally deserving of being replaced by an overarching transnational culture based upon Marxist theory.

Yes, I am wandering into political theory, so I will pull back a bit. The most important takeaway from all this is that never assume that the words said by Leftists mean what you think they do. They likely don’t. “Woman” doesn’t woman, “White Supremacy” has nothing to do with race. “Democracy” only means the Left winning. They use these words as weapons, not as containers of meaning.

You rightly think White Supremacy is a bad thing, so they need you to concede the term to them while retaining your deep revulsion.

Never, ever trust that a Leftist means what they are saying, because you can’t trust the meanings of the words themselves. They simply don’t believe that words have inherent meaning, but rather that words are expressions of power.

And they want the power. Don’t concede it.

UPDATE: I included an image that was satire, not real. I had been fooled into believing it was real and that is entirely my fault. I apologize for the error. Here is a link to a fact check on the image.