I don't want to get into the topic deeply - but this quote displays to me you have not traveled much outside of the U.S.
China, Japan, Central America, portions of the Middle East, Northern Africa cultures as a start display Patriarchy heavily.... without the "lets link it to white people" effects. It is fun for some people to dump on the U.S., but once one actually deeply looks at other cultures, you realize Patriarchy is a human issue - Not a U.S. issue
I employ all "U.S. bashers" to travel more. You'll come back humbled, and a bit more thankful for where the U.S. is, even if we are not perfect
As for South Korea, "whiteness" still plays a big role eg "looking white" [2].
Japan is essentially a monoculture. You're not Japanese if you're not ethnically japanese. How is that not "white supremacy" in a different form?
China is similar with the supremacy of the Han Chinese [3].
The Middle East very much has racial supremacy. Look at how all the imported workers aret reated from the Phillipines and India. Or the treatment of the Kurds. In Saudi Arabia, Arabs sit at the top. In Iran, it's ethnic Persians.
And this is before we even get started on Israel and Ashkenazi Jews, Sephardic Jews, Mizrahi Jews, Ethiopian Jews and of course ethnic Arabs (Palestinians including Israeli Arabs).
As one example from Africa, look at Kenya [4].
[1]: https://www.npr.org/2013/09/19/224152635/skin-color-still-pl...
[2]: https://humsci.stanford.edu/feature/stanford-scholar-traces-...
[3]: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2009/07/on-ui...
[4]: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/15/middleeast/tunisia-president-...
Which means “patriarchy and white supremacy” are not “inextricably intertwined.” Exhibit A for this not being race determined: how we keep redefining “whiteness” in America based on whoever is rich. To the point, today, that White + Asian is a common category. (Or how we cleave Hispanic from non-Hispanic Whites.)
Patriarchy is intertwined with wealth and power, but in a demonstrably extricable way. Conflating it with racism is a terrific way to halt any progress towards dismantling it, and for good reason.
Chinese, Japanese, or Hispanic, or Middle Easterners would never consider themselves "white". It is a term, where people want to lump U.S. whites together in the U.S. wholly as bad, and suggest they're evil in the U.S. and now globally.
People in the U.S. just happen to be historically white, just like Chinese just happen to be historically of Chinese descent, etc.
Ashkenazi Jews (the in group) tend to vote more liberal than Sephardic/Mizrahi Jews. Israeli Arabs parties, while associated with the left due to their position on Palestine, are extremely conservative (e.g. pushing for conversion therapy).
There were Mongols, Kush / Egyptian in Africa, Inca, Navajo in North America, etc etc - pulling from large and small groups. Even within a group, the India Caste system did the same within a population
You understand there are many societys in this world, in fact the majority of them, which would conteract that statement?
'Society and government largely exists to maintain institutions to enforce the subjugation of women (and BIPOCs)' - care to explain that statement?
No. The entire world can be assumed to be like America, so Americans don't need to really think about it. Everything foreign is properly understood by mapping it to familiar American concepts and obsessions.
The future is asexual transhuman clones grown in pods.
This is for sure a view you could have. Nothing wrong with that.
>This is of course incomplete but I attribute the rise of communities like MRA (mens rights activists), red and black pilled, regression in the access to reproductive medical care (abortion and contraception) and so on as a reaction to this power shift.
Do you think we should continue censoring these groups as hate speech?
>It's easy to become a pessimist but honestly I'm hopeful that current reactionary trends are a sign that things are getting better. GenZ seems to be breaking the trend that voters get more conservative as they get older and that is a good thing.
OP addressed this point. The sexual divide is greatest in gen Z.
Doesn't exist in America today. White supremacy exists only in fringe groups that have no influence.
Patriarchy is non existent today. I'd love to be proven wrong with hard examples.
Patriarchy and white supremacy are inextricably intertwined. Society and government largely exists to maintain institutions to enforce the subjugation of women (and BIPOCs). The last century has seem dismantling of this on a massive scale. This is of course incomplete but I attribute the rise of communities like MRA (mens rights activists), red and black pilled, regression in the access to reproductive medical care (abortion and contraception) and so on as a reaction to this power shift.
Evidence of all this is everywhere too eg the phenomenon of conservative men lying on dating apps because being honest leads to automatic rejection [1].
I'm old enough to have been an adult in the 1990s. Many of us will call this the last good decade. Why? Because the standards of living were much higher. This was before the War on Terror (and the subsequent rise in Islamophobia), etc. There was bad stuff too and I'm glad a lot of progress has been made on things like womens' rights and LBTQ+ rights.
It's easy to become a pessimist but honestly I'm hopeful that current reactionary trends are a sign that things are getting better. GenZ seems to be breaking the trend that voters get more conservative as they get older and that is a good thing.
[1]: https://www.vice.com/en/article/9keaxv/politics-dating-apps-...