White supremacy is a society-wide valuing system, not merely extremist violence.

Evidence

The biggest challenge for addressing the ongoing legacy of white supremacy is recovering the plain meaning of the words. For most whites, the term primarily evokes white sheets and burning crosses—extremist images, mostly from a bygone era. … “The phrase white supremacy conjures images of bad men in hooded robes who believe in white power, burn crosses, and scream the word nigger. But that’s not quite what I mean here. On a broader level, white supremacy involves the way a society organizes itself, and what and whom it chooses to value.… And that’s white supremacy without all the bluster: a set of practices informed by the fundamental belief that white people are valued more than others.” — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 55

Categorization

• DEFINE: Glaude’s definition reframes white supremacy as structural valuing of white people over others, decoupling it from hoods and crosses.
• SEED: Angle: a definitional essay on terms whose common meaning has been captured by extremism, and how recovering structural meaning changes diagnosis.
• XREF: connects to: White supremacy is a value-ordering system, not just overt racist ideology — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 77; White supremacy is a social organization valuing whites more, not just racial hatred — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 77; Racism is a societal system of ethnic and racial domination, not merely ideology — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1051 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• White supremacy is a value-ordering system, not just overt racist ideology #corroborates (0.95) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 77
• White supremacy is a social organization valuing whites more, not just racial hatred #corroborates (0.95) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 77
• Racism is a societal system of ethnic and racial domination, not merely ideology #corroborates (0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1051
• White supremacy operates as an idea undergirding Western social structure #expands (0.90) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1151
• Anti-Muslim racism operates as a logic of white supremacy, not mere prejudice #exemplifies (0.85) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 1054
• Transposing white supremacy to supremacy of whites reveals its meaning. #expands (0.85) — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 58
• Modern racism is widespread and not confined to a few extremists. #expands (0.85)
• Racial threat operates through rationalized systems that disperse responsibility across social arrangements #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 153
• White supremacy survives individual whites’ deaths because it is institutional #expands (0.80) — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 640
• US internet culture privileges whiteness rooted in white supremacy #exemplifies (0.80) — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 34