Thought I would share here the instance I have setup on Lemmy to promote the truth and to fight censorship online.

I have enabled federation on my instance and have added lemmy.ml communities to it. Feel free to take a look!

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    So apparently the admin of that instance is into “The Great White Brotherhood”, some spiritual cult and theory.

    While “white” here doesn’t refer to skin color, it does reinforce the narrative: white = good and black = bad. And so even just that name as it is applied to contemporary reality, is part of an reality that enforces anti-black narratives which are related to skin color. And then “Brotherhood”, I can’t imagine that this means anything else then something about a protective force to patriarchy, …but they are white, hence they are the good guys, so it’s ok if they protect and reinforce patriarchy?

    I’m not sure about the origin of that cult, but it got mentioned 18th in some book from someone called “Eckartshausen”. But the idea first got populated by Alfred Percy Sinnett and Helena Blavatsky, yes this Helena Blavatsky that also helped the german nazis to build a spirituality that defines the “german white race” as superior.

    So yes the “the great white brotherhood”, is linked to white supremacy, but not of those skin-head typ, more those “New-Age” and esoteric hippies, where white-supremacy isn’t like a goal, probably more a side effect caused by the lack of anti-racists and anti-classist analysis.

    Anyway, that’s also a characteristic of any major religion/cult that I’m aware of, nevertheless I think it’s important to deconstruct it.

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      3 years ago

      For futher reference on their about page on their website

      " So, after some thought the name The Great White Brotherhood was chosen. At the time it seemed the best name and described who this group were.

      Great implied a large collection.
      White implied purity of soul and ambition.
      Brotherhood implied a group joining together with one aim.
      

      However, over time, the meanings of words change.

      Today, unfortunately:

      Great implies noble.
      White implies skin color.
      Brotherhood implies a group exclusively male.
      

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