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Noah Berlatsky notes that the federal agents who shot Alex Pretti have now been identified as Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez, and that right-wing memes are being produced now to claim that Trump's and Stephen Miller's ethnic cleansing agenda cannot be about white supremacy if Latinos participate in it.

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https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/not-all-white-supremacists-are-white

Not All White Supremacists Are White

On race and the CBP agents who shot Alex Pretti

William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social replied · 4 days ago

Berlatsky writes,

"Ochoa and Garcia are only the latest in a long line of people who have pledged themselves to white supremacy without being white—or who have become white(r) in part by pledging themselves to white supremacy. ...

It may seem confused or confusing to say that two non-white men enforced white supremacy by murdering a white person."

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William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social replied · 4 days ago

"But whiteness itself is confused and confusing. It’s not an existential truth; it’s a way to organize violence, hierarchy, and hate."

In the years I spent teaching in historically Black colleges and universities, my students spoke to me of what they called the crabs-in-the-basket syndrome.

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William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social replied · 4 days ago

If a crab trapped with other crabs in a basket tries to claw its way out to freedom, they said, the other crabs will pull it back into the basket — doing the dirty work of the person who has trapped the crabs and intends to cook them.

Franz Fanon analyzes the dynamics in his magisterial book Wretched of the earth.

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William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social replied · 4 days ago

As Fanon says, it is not uncommon for some members of oppressed minority communities to internalize the negative self-image imposed on them by their oppressors, and to turn against their own group to curry favor with their oppressors. This an old, sad dynamic, and not in the least surprising, given how recurrent it is.

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William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social replied · 4 days ago

"There are a lot of reasons Stephen Miller’s goons wear masks. To terrify the communities they invade. To make it harder to shame them. To make it harder to tie them to other crimes they may have committed."

~ Marcy Wheeler

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https://emptywheel.net/2026/02/02/stephen-miller-paid-latino-thugs-to-murder-alex-pretti/

emptywheel

Stephen Miller Paid Latino Thugs to Murder Alex Pretti - emptywheel

Stephen Miller can only sustain his myth of white self-reliance by hiding the faces of those who murder white men in the streets of Blue cities.

William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social replied · 4 days ago

"But there is accumulating evidence that a big reason these goons hide their faces is to hide that the white nationalist project Stephen Miller is pursuing — like virtually everything else in America — relies on brown people to do the hard work. Miller can only sustain the myth of white self-reliance by hiding the faces of those who murder white men at his behest in the streets of Blue cities."

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