White supremacists frame whiteness as a besieged global minority

Evidence

Lastly, there is the minoritization of whiteness within the rhetoric of white power activists. Here, whiteness is seen to be under threat, to have been superseded demographically on a global scale. This is exemplified in the white power band New Minority, whose recording “White, Straight and Proud” complains that white men have become a lesser part in “their” world. George Burdi, who signed this band to the Resistance Records label, reinforces this lament: “Look at the global population levels. Whites account for only 8 percent of the planet’s population. Only 2 percent of the babies born last year were white…It’s WHITE PEOPLE that are the ‘new’ minority” (quoted in Zickmund, 1997:198). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2581 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

One of the interesting things about scrolling through the personal ads is that the faces that appear are nothing like the archetypal image of “The Racist.” There are very few skinheads with Nazi tattoos: these white supremacist “lonely hearts” - mostly in their twenties and thirties - look surprisingly prosaic. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2565 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Translocal racial identity unites white supremacists across nations; White power rhetoric reframes whites as a threatened global demographic minority — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2581; White supremacists frame themselves as persecuted underdog martyrs — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 981 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• White power rhetoric reframes whites as a threatened global demographic minority #corroborates (0.97) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2581
• Contemporary white supremacists present themselves as ordinary, mainstream people #complicates (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2565