No Way Out

For John, BLUF:  John, just like that Irish Funderal Director dismissed you as a Yank, the Woke are dismissing you as white.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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How bad minorities became ‘white’

Here is the sub-headline:

Black and Latino Trump voters have been accused of suffering from ‘multiracial whiteness’.

From Spiked, by Assistant Editor Fraser Myers, 20 January 2021.

Here is the lede plus two:

One of the more remarkable results of the 2020 election was that Donald Trump increased his support among non-white voters.  Even some of the hardcore Trumpists who stormed the Capitol – whose faces now adorn the FBI’s ‘wanted’ posters – were black and Latino.

Given that Trump is regularly derided as a racist – a white supremacist, even – this demands an explanation.  ‘What are we to make of unmistakably white mob violence that also includes non-white participants?’, asks Cristina Beltrán from New York University in the Washington Post.  She argues that we need to think in terms of ‘multiracial whiteness’.

Whiteness, Beltrán says, is the ‘politics of aggression, exclusion and domination’.  And multiracial whiteness ‘reflects an understanding of whiteness as a political colour and not simply a racial identity’.  It is a ‘discriminatory worldview in which feelings of freedom and belonging are produced through the persecution and dehumanisation of others’.

It seems we are setting the nation up for a contest between Caucasians and all others.  This is complicated by some of the "all others" identifying with the Anglo-Saxon political outlook of the Caucasians.  This is likely to not end well.

One of the things I am not seeing is the articulation of an end state, a final outcome.  It looks like conflict from now until the sun burns out, unless, of course, there is abject surrender of the Caucasians.  However, to whom do they surrender and are there terns being offerred.  For sure I don't see a Grant at Appomatix situation.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff