Jason Harvestdancer
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From the Washington Post opinion page.
Opinion: To understand Trump’s support, we must think in terms of multiracial Whiteness
See, minorities are supposed to vote Democrat because they are minorities and minorities vote Democrat.
It is called "Multiracial Whiteness" when a minority doesn't support the Democratic candidate.
I have, over my years on this forum, had people more than eager to change my race. I've had people apologize to me after they insinuate that I have white racism and then remember I'm brown.
No further need to apologize, according to this author. I'm a "Multiracial White person" now.
Opinion: To understand Trump’s support, we must think in terms of multiracial Whiteness
The Trump administration’s anti-immigration, anti-civil rights stance has made it easy to classify the president’s loyalists as a homogenous mob of white nationalists. But take a look at the FBI’s posters showing people wanted in the insurrectionist assault on the U.S. Capitol: Among the many White faces are a few that are clearly Latino or African American.
Such diversity highlights the fact that President Trump’s share of the Latino vote in November actually rose over 2016, notwithstanding years of incendiary rhetoric targeting Mexicans and other Latino communities. Yes, Trump’s voters — and his mob — are disproportionately White, but one of the more unsettling exit-poll data points of the 2020 election was that a quarter to a third of Latino voters voted to reelect Trump.
And while the vast majority of Latinos and an overwhelming majority of African American voters supported the Biden-Harris ticket and were crucial to its success, many Black and brown voters have family and friends who fervently backed the MAGA policy agenda, including its delusions and conspiracy theories.
See, minorities are supposed to vote Democrat because they are minorities and minorities vote Democrat.
Multiracial whiteness promises Latino Trump supporters freedom from the politics of diversity and recognition. For voters who see the very act of acknowledging one’s racial identity as itself racist, the politics of multiracial whiteness reinforces their desired approach to colorblind individualism. In the politics of multiracial whiteness, anyone can join the MAGA movement and engage in the wild freedom of unbridled rage and conspiracy theories.
Multiracial whiteness offers citizens of every background the freedom to call Muslims terrorists, demand that undocumented immigrants be rounded up and deported, deride BLM as a movement of thugs and criminals, and accuse Democrats of being blood-drinking pedophiles.
It is called "Multiracial Whiteness" when a minority doesn't support the Democratic candidate.
I have, over my years on this forum, had people more than eager to change my race. I've had people apologize to me after they insinuate that I have white racism and then remember I'm brown.
No further need to apologize, according to this author. I'm a "Multiracial White person" now.