navyasarchive:

i saw something earlier about this on my dash but yeah white sociopathy is a real phenomenon and it’s a real term. A Black woman coined the term and explicated how white sociopathy materially operates, and there are countless other academic works that discuss it.  It’s not ableist to discuss white sociopathy, because white sociopathy is part and parcel to white supremacy. “White sociopathy” is not a psychiatric or biomedical term meant to pathologize whiteness or racism - it’s a sociopolitical term meant to describe how white people’s implicit biases and social conditioning lead them to dehumanize Black people & other people of color, and how the ideology of white sociopathy is used to justify eugenics, sterilization, police brutality, and many other forms of racism. 

Put simply it’s one of many facets of whiteness and white supremacy.