Notices by Kim Crayton ~ Her/She (kimcrayton1@dair-community.social)

It manufactures suffering.

It legislates shame.

It institutionalizes cruelty and then dares to call it “moral.”

Conservative Christianity, as it’s been weaponized in U.S. culture and politics, doesn’t just distort faith, it reinforces a hierarchy where white men stand closest to God, and everyone else exists to serve, obey, or disappear.

It creates environments where young queer and trans people learn early that they are unsafe, unloved, and unwelcome.

And when one of its champions falls, when even a single symbol of that supremacy is removed from power, we see, in real measurable terms, how many lives can begin to breathe again.

That is the human cost of these myths.

That is the harm of systems, institutions, and policies built to uphold them.

And that is why dismantling them is not just political work, or moral work…it is life-saving work.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/calls-to-hotline-decline-sharply-after-christian-conservative-resigns-as-education-head/

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The numbers are clear and they tell a story of harm, relief, and the systems, institutions, and policies that make both possible.

After Ryan Walters, a self-described Christian nationalist and anti-LGBTQ+ crusader, resigned as Oklahoma’s superintendent of public instruction, calls from LGBTQ+ youth in the state to the national crisis hotline dropped by 36%.

Let that sink in.

For over a year, 1,400 young people in Oklahoma reached out each month in crisis not because they were inherently broken or confused, but because the system built around them was designed to break them.

64% of those young people identified Walters by name as a source of their distress.

This is what the myth of white supremacy looks like in real time.

This is what the myth of white male supremacy does when it wraps itself in a cross and calls itself “Christian values.”

Because when you’ve been socialized to believe your worth is tied to dominance, that you only have value when you’re “on top,” equality feels like loss.

When your identity is dependent on control, collaboration feels like failure.

This isn’t about “a few bad actors” or “hurt feelings.” It’s about the myth of white male supremacy at work in real time, policing behavior, enforcing conformity, and punishing deviation even when that punishment means collective decline.

When a white man no longer sees himself reflected in leadership, the story he’s been told, that he earned his position, that his success was based solely on merit, that he is naturally fit to lead, begins to crumble. And instead of interrogating that discomfort, too many respond with withdrawal, resistance, or sabotage.

That’s not about competence.
That’s about conditioning.

In Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America, Ijeoma Oluo asks a question that every white man needs to sit with:

“Why do white men decrease their level of performance when a woman or person of color becomes CEO?”

It’s not just a question about workplace dynamics.

It’s a mirror reflecting the fragile foundation on which white male identity has been built.

When I read @anildash's “The Majority AI View”, what struck me most wasn’t just his critique of the current state of AI, it was how clearly it exposes the same predictable pattern that Ijeoma Oluo lays out in Mediocre, and that I continue to explore through Life Beyond the Supremacy Myth.

Once again, we see the myth of white male supremacy at work. Where the loudest, most harmful voices are mistaken for the most “visionary,”

and where the violence of exploitation and exclusion is rebranded as “innovation.”

Dash points out that “the majority of people in tech are thoughtful, nuanced, and circumspect.” Yet, those very people, the ones capable of building something grounded in ethics, sustainability, and compassion, are silenced by a culture that rewards domination, not care. The fear of being labeled “anti-progress” or “not a team player” keeps far too many from naming what they already know…

this isn’t leadership, it’s authoritarianism dressed up as disruption.

Oluo’s Mediocre showed us that this isn’t new. It’s the same white male mediocrity that has defined so much of American leadership. Inflated through PR and power, protected by systems, institutions, and policies designed to uphold the myth of white supremacy. It’s the same pattern that ensures harm is always externalized while those responsible remain insulated from accountability.

What we’re witnessing in tech today isn’t the future, it’s a predictable repetition of a myth that has long outlived its usefulness.

Life Beyond the Supremacy Myth calls us to imagine and practice something different. To build from a place where value isn’t measured by extraction, where innovation doesn’t depend on exploitation, and where leadership doesn’t require harm.

Because the truth is, AI doesn’t have to be extractive. Innovation doesn’t have to be violent. Technology doesn’t have to be in service to supremacy.

But getting there will require white men, and those who’ve benefited from their mediocrity, to finally confront what it means to stop being the hero or the victim, and start being accountable participants in building a world that works for everyone.

https://www.anildash.com/2025/10/17/the-majority-ai-view/

They leverage their platforms, their wealth, and their influence to position themselves as saviors. Taking on leadership roles to “solve” societal problems they don’t actually understand as lived experience. And when the inevitable harm comes, as it always does, they retreat to victimhood, weaponizing their fragility and calling it persecution, while building a narrative that turns them into the misunderstood hero of their own downfall.

You Must Stop This Pattern.

Because as long as this cycle goes unchecked, you will continue to mistake harm for leadership, fragility for growth, and arrogance for courage.

It’s time for white men to learn how to sit with “No” and to do so without needing to destroy everything and everyone around them to prove they still matter.

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It’s a tale as old as time.

Zuckerberg, Musk, Dorsey, Benioff, the Cuomo brothers, and now the random “Purple Revolution” dude, the path from “good white dude” to openly white supremacist is almost always triggered by one simple thing: being told “No.”

That “No” might look like being called out for harm, being held accountable for the consequences of their choices, or having their authority challenged by someone who refuses to bow to the myth of white male supremacy.

But it’s never really about the “No” itself.

It’s about what that “No” exposes…the fragility of an identity built entirely on domination, access, and entitlement.

Because whiteness, particularly white maleness, can only ever cast itself as the hero or the victim, but never the villain. So, when confronted with their own harm, white men with limited perspective but unlimited access to systems, institutions, and polices of power do what they’ve always done: they double down.

The height of the myth of white, mediocre male supremacy is believing, with your full chest, that you deserved a Nobel PEACE Prize while actively ticking off an enemies list.

This is what happens when power, privilege, and ego go unchecked.

When “greatness” is defined not by collective wellbeing or accountability, but by domination and myth-making.

When white men can wage war, literally and figuratively, and still be seen as benevolent leaders.

That is the dangerous legacy of mediocrity:

a culture that confuses arrogance for vision,
cruelty for conviction,
and violence for peace.

And when you grow up believing that your harm will always be framed as “necessary,” “strategic,” or “heroic,” then of course you’ll convince yourself you’re the protagonist in every story…even the ones written in blood.

This isn’t irony.

It’s the design.

It’s how the myth of white male supremacy sustains itself, through the celebration of harm as history, and the erasure of those who suffer under it as collateral damage.

Until we dismantle that myth and stop mistaking peace prizes for PR campaigns then this cycle of violence disguised as virtue will continue.

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