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a rhetorical question is one where you know what answer you're going to get but you ask anyway in order to use it as an example for the point you're actually trying to make.
I know what a rhetorical question is. I'm wondering what point you were trying to make if not "you can't find any examples of someone getting murdered over anti-white prejudice."
that anti-white prejudice doesn't, even on the surface, rise to a level that puts it in the same category as racism. the people arguing that it does are making a categorical error - in order to emphasize the point I'm going to first share a personal example, not because even it itself manages to rise to the same category as the ongoing structural crimes being done to BIPOC people, but rather because it's my experience to share and because even the relative difference between my own experience and the anti-white prejudice being complained about is sufficient to carry the point home.
first, let's start with the generational trauma. the British colonized my ancestral home. they not only stole our wealth - they also destroyed our culture and warped our view of our own history. my culture once had an accepted and tolerated place for trans people like my self, with a tradition stretching back thousands of years - indeed even our very oldest legends, an oral tradition predating writing, note that place. if not for the British, it's likely I'd still have my birth family, and that's a pain so deep I'm crying just sharing this.
second, let's compare my day-to-day experience as someone who isn't white but is trans with the experiences of virtually all of my other trans friends who are virtually all white. I alone have been harassed out of restaurants and bathrooms, had pharmacy and grocery staff shout to the whole store that I'm actually a man, in an attempt to provoke collective outrage (which is, I'll note actual violence), and on one occasion, been chased by proud boys screaming slurs with the obvious intent to beat me if caught. my white trans friends cannot believe the relative degree of violence sent my way - people misgender them or occasionally refuse to use their pronouns but the veneer of polite society never entirely falls away. and to avoid crying more I'm going to stop here before I talk about police.
the point I'm trying to get across is that white supremacy - the legacy of colonial rule - is hegemonic. not even wealth and class entirely free you from the naked violence of the system perpetuating itself. I beg you to read Settlers and read Fanon. comparing a random Black supremacist, someone on the social, political, and economic fringe, with the deeply entrenched and omnipresent system of colonialism is utterly ludicrous.
when we say "prejudice against white people doesn't count because it's not systemic" this is the discussion we're trying to short circuit. it's not feasible to have this discussion over and over again. but speaking abstractly about degrees of harm also doesn't get across how far apart the things we're comparing actually are.
I've read Settlers and Fanon (and The Counter-Revolution of 1776, and I'm working on Black Reconstruction in America right now).
comparing a random Black supremacist, someone on the social, political, and economic fringe, with the deeply entrenched and omnipresent system of colonialism is utterly ludicrous
Besides reactionaries and overt racists, no one is claiming there is hegemonic, systemic, or structural racism against white people. I've never even heard this from libs, let alone leftists. Instead, the argument is that insulting or harming someone based on the color of their skin still fits the definition of racism, even if it is not aligned with a larger superstructure of racism.
I'm convinced this whole discourse could be resolved with "there is no structural racism against white people, even though individuals may be racist against them." The disagreement stems from arguing that only structural racism is really racism, which strikes me as an odd semantic battle to pick.
Instead, the argument is that insulting or harming someone based on the color of their skin still fits the definition of racism, even if it is not aligned with a larger superstructure of racism.
it's a recuperation of the term which is specifically what people are trying to resist. what term could we use to separate the superstructural violence from interpersonal prejudice that won't itself be recuperated? I remind you that the term itself began life as what the white supremacists called themselves. it fell out of favor with them when people caught on that it meant white supremacist.
the notion that it today means "interpersonal prejudice on racial lines" is a weakening of the notion that provides cover to white supremacists, giving them space to complain about the racism being done to them.
there's no such thing as racism against white people because whiteness and racism are intrinsically linked.
I'm looking at how most people use the word "racism" today, because I think we should talk to people using terms they understand. If we think it's worthwhile to redefine a word from its common usage we have to actually teach people, not just spring it on them and berate them for not reading our minds.