“America as we know it, as a country, its ideas, philosophy, laws, et cetera, they all came from European people, from European ideas,” she said. “Our architecture, our language, our predominant religions, our holidays, and so forth, are white European and Christian.” To the extent that this was true, America’s origins of violence and prejudice didn’t seem to matter to Ayla, who once said on Gab that “colonization was the best thing that ever happened to the world.” Because America felt white to her, ipso facto, whiteness was American.
