race (feel free to skip this post)

I don't want to focus on this topic too much. However, I talk about politics, and a lot of that hinges on a divergence in views on race, so clarifying my stance seems fair. I think I can fit all of my principles into one post.
1. Fuck the Nazis.
2. Fuck the Confederacy.
3. The two political factions listed above are largely defunct (outside of some parts of the punk scene, or fail-tier social media apps), and had distinct philosophies and agendas. Broad-brushing these movements as 'white supremacy' confuses more than it clarifies.
4. Coleman Hughes is correct that color blindness should be our North Star. (I didn't put this at number 1 as a tactic; didn't want to give leftists an excuse to stop reading right away.)
5. Politicians are forced to be racist. They must appeal to certain ethnic groups to campaign, and the policies they support would either maintain the status quo or favor some groups over others. Looking to politicians for guidance on ethics around race is a mistake.
6. What society thinks of as 'race' is mostly inaccurate labels applied to a gradient of skin tones, the byproduct of human ancestors living at various distances from the equator.
7. Loyalty to a state or country usually means giving greater weight to the flourishing of a population in a specific geographic area, which likely originates from ancestors living at various distances from the equator. Ending racism probably means, at some point, discarding the concept of geographically constrained countries. (Try not to freak out, right-wingers. Probably not in our lifetimes, and the US shouldn't go first.)
8. Attempting to discuss matters around race has created new distinctions in language. Overt racism in the US has mostly been supplanted by rancor between groups that use (or refuse to use) different phrases.
9.  Racism is ill-defined, and used to describe a variety of elements. Eliminating cruelty is a more achievable goal.