One thing that I’ve always suspected is that people who take a strongly supremacist stance, often enough, are probably doing some sort of compensation. I don’t limit this to race, I mean it shows up in religion, gender and sex, ethnicity, regions of origin, profession or occupation, and yes race as well.

By this I mean that anyone really at home in their identity, and content in it, probably has less of a desire to one-up others, to measure themselves over others who are different. I think being a supremacist is a bit different from simply being a bigot in that a person can dislike others of another kind or type, and be bigoted towards them, without necessarily needing to feel superior to them.

It is the need, the urge, to feel superior over another, to feel supreme over them, that somehow screams to me a compensation for a personal weakness or felt lack of security in some area.

Pop psychology? Maybe. But I do think there is something here.