.paulwaldman1: While Sen. Tommy Tuberville has backtracked on his 'white nationalism' comments, neither her nor his party is any less committed to what we might call its anti-anti-racism project.
face racial discrimination rather than blacks. So their trick instead is to stir up outrage at any effort to acknowledge, explore or address racism against nonwhite people, while saying that you’re only doing it because of your passionate opposition to racism itself. And while Tuberville may be moderately chagrined, neither he nor his party is any less committed, as both a substantive and political matter, to what we might call its anti-anti-racism project.
That’s why nearly every contemporary conservative initiative to undermine anti-racist efforts that originate with liberals is presented as theopposition to racism. Why must affirmative action be dismantled? So no one will be discriminated against because of their race. Why must we restrict what teachers are allowed to say about racism? So no one is made to feel bad because of their race.
Neither Tuberville nor his party is any less committed to what we might call its anti-anti-racism project.white people being unfairly accused of racism . Vicious liberals wielding false racism accusations is a constant topic on conservative talk radio. It feeds conservative victimhood narratives, and it’s why Republicans have passionately fought against efforts to eradicate extremism from the ranks of the military, the issue that led Tommy Tuberville to start riffing on “white nationalism” in the first place.
Preventing more versions of Timothy McVeigh — the white nationalist Army veteran who used his training in explosives to murder 168 people in Oklahoma City in 1995 — seems a self-evidently worthy goal for the military to pursue. But Republicans don’t think so.
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