But you see, as the Smithsonian's NMAAHC told us "whiteness" means valuing objectivity, rationality, hard work as a means to success, putting work before play, being polite, avoiding confrontation, in short being civilized. Thus those who defend civilized norms against enemies foreign (the military) or domestic (the police) are supporting the rule of civilized norms, that is the "supremacy" of "whiteness", or "white supremacy" for short.