Canada

Okay, it is important to acknowledge that miseducation and disinformation contributes to the specific rhetoric applied in current white supremacist movements, but to suggest that this is an intelligence issue is reductive and ableist. Fascists infamously adopt anti-intelligence and absurdity into their rhetoric exactly because it wastes time and redirects resistance into arguments that work to platform them further. To them, having to justify the way you think is a concession of power. They use idiocy to assert their power as a privileged group who does not need to make sense in order for their will to be realized in society.

They're right in that, the white supremacist worldview is validated at every level of how our society functions. Canada is an extractivist, racist, settler-colonial enterprise fundamentally. Whether it appropriates ideas of anti-bigotry into its language does not change that this is a country that depends on genocide and racialized privilege to exist. While many Canadians will be discomforted by this notion, that most of them are white and disproportionately more materially secure than racialized groups is undeniable. Indigenous people suffer physical violence, disposession, incarceration, shelter and food insecurity, and sexual violence with impunity at significantly higher rates than white Canadians. White men are the most likely to commit that violence and are the least likely to face repercussions for any violence they inflict. Much of that violence is facilitated through industrial extraction -- which again disproportionately harms indigenous communities -- that is not recognized as a crime at all by the Canadian state for obvious reasons. White men own the most property, have written most of the laws, occupy most seats of power, and they know that even if they do not know why.

I'm not trying to shut you down or suggest that these people are pretending to be stupid. I only want to caution against viewing stupidity as an explanation for their values. You are correct, they do not know what they're talking about beyond the fact that they are articulating a desire to reaffirm white supremacy. These men are correctly pointing out that they can behave this way because this system is built for them, and they don't have to know why in order to benefit from it.