White supremacy

 It is easy to agree with Bérubé that racial supremacy should be beyond the pale. No reputable academic should be espousing those views. But, then, I've heard a lot of things called white supremacy, like music theory or math, showing up on time, etc.... You can't argue for the value of the protestant work ethic, maybe.  In the more expansive vision of supremacy, every normal thing that one does could be a symptom of that, and every defense of a normal practice could be seen in the same light, as a defense of white supremacy.  

So the belief that white supremacy is beyond the pale is a way of smuggling in a compulsion to believe in a certain world view, the idea that this supremacy is pervasive.  

No it could be true that white supremacy pervades a lot of thinking in an implicit way.  But that is a point that should be debated, not simply imposed.  Conflating KKK style racism with everyday practices that might be pervaded with a more nebulous idea of supremacy is not intellectually honest.