What he appears to be unaware of is the fact that because Western values (which really means Enlightenment values)
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were created in a racist system and have a certain degree of racism baked in. They are inherently hostile to our survival.
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and I'm not taking the completely radical position that no white Western ideas are of value and they're all racist garbage and they gotta go
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but I am saying that the ideological system Bannon defends is incompatible with black liberation.
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I also genuinely believe that Bannon's solution to racism is nationalism. If we all take on America as our identity, you can't be anti-black
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this is patently absurd.
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Not every citizen---and especially not black and native citizens---has an alloyed, wholly positive relationship to America.
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and more importantly, not every citizen---especially not white citizens---is capable of defining America is something other than white.
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So if the America we've experienced must always be subordinated to the (white) America they've experienced, we will never be liberated.
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if we have to conform to the values and culture and practices of farmers in Iowa, we will never be liberated.
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If we have to perform Americanness, which means performing whiteness, to be accepted, we will never be liberated.
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if we have to mute any and all criticisms of a state that has treated us miserably in the name of nationalism, we will never be liberated.
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so while Bannon's nationalism is technically not an ethno-nationalism,
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