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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump and allies try to redefine racism by casting White men as victims
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Jonathan Lemire
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The conservatives wield their own definition of racism, one that disregards U.S. history that gives White people a monopoly on power and wealth
They argue everyone must be treated equally and, therefore, White men must not in any way be disadvantaged
washingtonpost.com
Trump and allies try to redefine racism by casting White men as victims
Trump is helping to push a diverging definition of racism that reflects deep and often partisan divisions about what, if anything, needs to be done to produce a more equitable America.
10:00 AM · Feb 5, 2022
Jonathan Lemire
@JonLemire
The conservatives wield their own definition of racism, one that disregards U.S. history that gives White people a monopoly on power and wealth
They argue everyone must be treated equally and, therefore, White men must not in any way be disadvantaged
washingtonpost.com
Trump and allies try to redefine racism by casting White men as victims
Trump is helping to push a diverging definition of racism that reflects deep and often partisan divisions about what, if anything, needs to be done to produce a more equitable America.
10:00 AM · Feb 5, 2022
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/05/trump-redefine-racism/
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https://archive.fo/McRSl
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), for example, joined conservatives who complained that President Bidens decision to appoint a Black woman to the Supreme Court was offensive and excludes most Americans. Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) said that limiting the pool to Black women is affirmative racial discrimination. And Trump surrogate Lynnette Diamond Hardaway called Bidens approach affirmative action and said it was racist, it is racism, toward anybody whether youre White or Black.
Writ large, the statements cast White men as victims, enraging many members of marginalized communities.
Bishop Talbert Swan, president of the Greater Springfield, Mass., chapter of the NAACP, said: It is gaslighting on steroids for White men who have always been the most privileged segment of society to think that America offering to non-White males the privileges that they have always had from birth is somehow discriminating against them. For that demographic to be out in public, screaming racism and pretending to be victims is one of the most clownish disingenuous acts that Ive ever seen.
A spokesperson for Trump did not respond to a request for comment.
Experts in political speech and critics on the left say there is more at play than a disagreement over whether White people can be victims of racism or a slanted understanding of the role race plays in America. Some see the desire to identify racism and label opponents racist as an effort to wield grievance and stoke animus for political gain a tactic Trump and others have used in campaigns to anger and animate voters. Its a sentiment steeped in beliefs among some voters that attempts at equity have gone too far and are punishing people who happen to have been born White.
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Trump and allies try to redefine racism by casting White men as victims (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Feb 2022
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Hoyt
(54,770 posts)1. Ignorant white wingers have whined about reverse-discrimination for decades. Screw em.
dalton99a
(81,485 posts)2. NEXT: GOP demands hate crime victims to apologize
multigraincracker
(32,676 posts)3. As an old, Southern born
Pinkish Gray man, I don't think I've been punished for my color. I find this is ridiculous.
llashram
(6,265 posts)4. bishop Swan
is fighting 1984 "Newspeak". White racists have always had that as a tool to keep their troops riled up and racist.
Irish_Dem
(47,051 posts)5. Hitler's playbook: He told the German people they were victims.
And they did not get their proper due as the master race.
keithbvadu2
(36,797 posts)6. Passing
yardwork
(61,608 posts)10. To be fair, he'd get away with it in Florida, too.
But only if he was Cuban.
SWBTATTReg
(22,121 posts)11. And he was born in Canada too. He's one of the worst hypocrites around.
spanone
(135,831 posts)7. This is why he called the Black Women investigating him 'racists'.
He's shit.
Irish_Dem
(47,051 posts)9. Hitler identified a group as the enemy and the cause of all problems.
He then attempted to eradicate that group from the face of the planet.
modrepub
(3,495 posts)12. To The Privileged
Equality feels like oppression.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,972 posts)13. K&R