1.) Given the history of whiteness and white nationalism (e.g. in the U.S., in Great Britain, in France, etc.) there's no evidence to support the idea that white nationalists don't think being white makes you better than people who are not white.
I've talked to and/or observed numerous white nationalists who definitely do not match this description.
Invoking "history of whiteness" just means you're reifying your b.s. CRT jargon as if the rest of us need to play along.
Even liberal scholars disagree with your oversimplification:
https://psmag.com/ideas/how-white-identity-shapes-american-politics
Racial prejudice is about people who aren't part of your racial group. White nationalism is having a feeling of solidarity with, and favoritism toward, one's racial group. It's more positive, protective feelings for people who are more like you, in terms of racial identification.
She's denouncing the *consequences of* white nationalism (in a way I disagree with), but still draws distinction between feeling of solidarity for your own group (nationalism) and feelings of prejudice against other groups.
White nationalists exalting East Asian cultures is not the equivalent of white nationalists thinking that East Asians are on par with or better than white people.
Even hardcore white racialists tend to acknowledge that east Asians have higher IQ scores on average than whites. I don't think you'll find many white nationalist who would strongly argue, for example, that Albanians are "better than" Japanese just on account of where they each respectively genomically cluster. Even German Nazism didn't view races collectively in such crude terms, and viewed certain racially white groups as inferior while understanding China and Japan as very advanced civilizat
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