I don’t think you’re using the term “white supremacy” the same way as Phil, who’s referring to the systemic issue of power dynamics between whites and non-whites, not the people who claim to be white nationalists or are deliberately racist, say, or their racist beliefs.
I didn’t see any case to be made that the views being attacked here meaningfully cause such bad systemic power dynamics in the real world. Of course “power dynamics” can be defined pretty broadly, but then you run into the noncentral fallacy.
They might cause bad systemic power dynamics by omission (by not actively addressing) them or by worsening them, e.g. by further concentrating resources into the hands of white people relative to non-white people or increasing apathy towards the issue among white people (e.g. global poverty, which disproportionately affects non-white people, as a “rounding error”).
Of course, we are talking about issues competing for our attention and resources, which you’ve pointed out. Focus on global poverty comes at the cost of focus on x-risks.
Refraining from actively redistributing to nonwhite countries is the norm even for most on the progressive left, and Torres himself seems to favor x-risk work over reducing global poverty, so this is not a credible definition of white supremacy. And favoring x-risk reduction over poverty reduction is pretty orthogonal to the object of contention here (which is: whether we should assign different conceptual priority to saving lives in advanced vs developing nations).
I don’t think you’re using the term “white supremacy” the same way as Phil, who’s referring to the systemic issue of power dynamics between whites and non-whites, not the people who claim to be white nationalists or are deliberately racist, say, or their racist beliefs.
I didn’t see any case to be made that the views being attacked here meaningfully cause such bad systemic power dynamics in the real world. Of course “power dynamics” can be defined pretty broadly, but then you run into the noncentral fallacy.
They might cause bad systemic power dynamics by omission (by not actively addressing) them or by worsening them, e.g. by further concentrating resources into the hands of white people relative to non-white people or increasing apathy towards the issue among white people (e.g. global poverty, which disproportionately affects non-white people, as a “rounding error”).
Of course, we are talking about issues competing for our attention and resources, which you’ve pointed out. Focus on global poverty comes at the cost of focus on x-risks.
Refraining from actively redistributing to nonwhite countries is the norm even for most on the progressive left, and Torres himself seems to favor x-risk work over reducing global poverty, so this is not a credible definition of white supremacy. And favoring x-risk reduction over poverty reduction is pretty orthogonal to the object of contention here (which is: whether we should assign different conceptual priority to saving lives in advanced vs developing nations).