Some helpful graphics about anti-racism and white supremacy that will help you understand how it works. Hopefully that understanding will also help prevent you from falling down those pipelines and keep you from perpetuating those systems through thoughtless comments and microaggressions.
I want to add on that racism is a spectrum, not a binary.
There aren't just anti-racists and white supremacists. There are many people between those two groups who consciously and unconsciously project their biases, who proudly wear the badge of racism while there are also others who deny they're racist despite making racists comments, jokes, or by repeating racist rhetoric
Theres this Black author named Barnor Hesse who came up with the 8 White Identities to describe some of the people you can find on that spectrum. Those identities give a useful framework to figure out where you lie on the spectrum of racism.
Beyond that, racist violence is also a spectrum. The people over at The Equality Institute gave us a helpful framework to see how each layer of this violence builds into genocide. It's called the Pyramid of White Supremacy.
The idea is that you need the foundational bottom layers in order to build higher. You can not justify Violence against a group for example without first normalizing Indifference, Minimisation, and Discrimination against them.
Another good resource is this site. It's a book on white supremacy that's been formatted into a website so that it could be more interactive. It's entirely free too.
This website is a long-time dream finally bearing fruit, a needed remix of the widely circulated article WHITE SUPREMACY CULTURE origina
Happy studying 🤠
