Wait, where is the white supremacy in that obviously lighthearted article?
Well, you can start with why the Roman empire is overrepresented in
popular culture for its historic relevance, achievements, and legacy. As opposed to, for example, the caliphates, khanates, Chinese dynasties, indigenous central and south American empires for the comparative little known about them (hint), or for its renewed interest in post-pan-Africanism, the Mali empire (which made up for lack of geographic span with wealth). Since we're comparing like-to-like and comparing the historic legacy of great empires from the classical to modern era.
One wonders, for example, if someone who isn't white, western, or Christian might have such regard for the Roman empire as compared to others of equal or greater historic relevance outside
popular culture.
Then you'd do well to ask yourself what sort of person might write an half-assed op-ed based on sweeping generalizations applied from
popular culture assumptions about "trad men", framed around
popular culture "knowledge" of history. You might ask yourself why I keep saying
popular culture, and why I keep putting
popular culture in italics...well, I'll tell you: it ain't exactly a sign of worldliness, internalized education, or a particularly deep or thoughtful perspective.
"But Eacaraxe!" you might say, "that reflects
societal white supremacy!" and indeed you'd be right. Authored works written within a white supremacist context and framework, even if unintentional, will represent white supremacy. The difference is within whether that framework
reinforces or
challenges white supremacy, or if the author even realizes what they're doing in the first place...which in this case, they clearly are
not.
"Obviously lighthearted" is another way of saying "it's just a joke", and we all ought to know the implications of
that statement. I think you know well enough where the white supremacy is in it.