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Re: Color-blind Nationalist
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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Trump's response to a question about what he thinks of people seeing his rhetoric as emboldening white nationalists and whether he was concerned that Republicans would be seen as supporting white nationalists is exactly what I've been talking about on this board.
"That's a racist question," is not just a dodge. The ability to act as if you are so color-blind that any discussion of race--even in response to something so clearly coded to purposefully and specifically excite racists--is itself racist is the type of shield white people deploy to avoid addressing racism all the time. Not to this ridiculous degree of course, but it is the exact same concept.
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Trump doesn't pretend to be color-blind. The real racism is the race consciousness that gets in the way of implicit white supremacy.
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