So this is a distinction about manners (how candid are you in acknowledging goal) not about goals or their impact.https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/912637896326303744 …
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Racism tends to adapt to spirit of times (i.e. religious racism to scientific racism). Alt right is old racism adapted to digital age
My point: You and others on the left are playing Manichean politics: Either you're on the left or you're a racist, w no distinctions.
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Naw. There have been plenty of non-racist & anti-racist non-leftists (Voegelin, many libertarians). I'd like to see more.
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I think the Q is whether current left conceptions allow for a conservatism on race issues distinct from white supremacism.
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e.g. is anti-immigration sentiment ipso facto white supremacist? skepticism of affirmative action? support for drug war? etc.
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It's at least as old as Bacon's Rebellion?
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the US is a polity built on racial domination and expropriation. and arguably, up until the relatively recent past, a herrenvolk state
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In other words, it's all alt-right, all the way down. Always has been. Only difference is whether it's explicit or not.
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I don't think everyone is necessarily complicit. Most just don't notice and are happy to ignore it because it's uncomfortable to consider.
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That becomes less defensible as it's discussed more, but I think complacency and comfort are more to blame than overt supremacism
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No, there are racist people on the left, too.
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the question you need to ask is what an anti-racist conservatism looks like and how it operates.
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a conservatism that seeks to preserve whatever order built on that upholds race hierarchy by definition. it is not "manichean" to note that.
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What about conservatives who want to replace this order with an integralist Catholic utopia? (asking for a friend)
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Be nice if those conservatives would stop pretending GOP voting laws aren't worthy of a forceful internal shaming.
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You and others on the right are playing Manichaean politics: believe my false dichotomy or be wrong.
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