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From Future Hindsight: Strategic Racism is a Divide and Conquer Scam with Ian Haney López

Some of My Best Friends Are

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Are You a Racist?

JD Vance and Josh Mandel are using rhetoric designed to trigger deeply rooted racist resentments and anxieties. They want to be called racist because it helps them say to their supporters, see? I'm not racist. The alt right now is sort of more sanitized version takes as an article of faith that some racial group must create a new race. And the question is which racial group will be dominant? Trump actually said this and responding to some of Hillary Clinton's attacks said, she's not just calling me a racist. She's calling you a racist too. But here's the important insight. That all depends upon a conversation about racism that accepts a basic frame of racism is just white people

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