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Should We Talk To White Supremacists? | Current Affairs
This is the same girl who couldn't find it in her heart to call Trump a racist.
William F Buckley ain't Richard Spencer.
Funny how she ain't talking this talking empathy route with some of those dreaded Hillary Clinton voters that she hates so much. You hate neoliberals, and their use of identity politics, but you wanna feel sorry for white supremacists who use identity politics, want to wipe us off the map, and you want to engage them in intellectual conversations? So they can see our humanity? FOH! How many of these bernie or die fools have friends who don't think highly of black people? I can't tell who's worst on the left- berniebros or liberals? They all fukking wishy washy on race.
This is the same girl who couldn't find it in her heart to call Trump a racist.
Not only is talking to Trump voters seen as futile, a desire to better understand them is often stigmatized as reflective of a preference for Trump voters and/or the bigoted ideologies that serve to marginalize communities of color, LGBTI persons, and religious minority groups. Bernie Sanders’ statement that Democrats should talk to Trump voters has been used to imply he’s racist. An A&E documentary about the Ku Klux Klan set to air in January was canceled in the wake of public backlash: audiences were convinced that the show would glamorize the KKK—a dangerous proposition in the age of Trump. In fact, the show was designed to do the opposite: it emphasized efforts to help extricate members of hate groups, including young children, from their environments. Regardless, the show was pulled from the schedule after it was revealed that its subjects were paid to participate—a tipping point that felt more like pretext than principle.
As a practical matter, to write off a population as broad as “Trump voters” or even “white supremacists” is politically irresponsible. With respect to Trump voters, post election analysis has proven that an electorally significant percentage were once Obama supporters. This means that either racism isn’t as fixed as implied, or, in the alternative, that racists might be motivated by something other than hate at the ballot box. And although the idea of courting white supremacists is, of course, distasteful, doing so feels less controversial once you consider “white supremacy” to include a spectrum of beliefs from which few people are excluded. If everybody is racist, to refrain from talking to racists is to retreat from politics entirely.
Racists are said to wear white hoods, or perhaps now, white polo shirts. They can alternatively be identified by a swastika armband, or a Confederate license plate. Because neither Democrats nor Republicans are above wielding class as a weapon when convenient, we are also told that they lack teeth, thirst for Mountain Dew, and are, on the whole, “deplorables.” They are beneath political acknowledgment, beyond redemption.
William F Buckley ain't Richard Spencer.
Funny how she ain't talking this talking empathy route with some of those dreaded Hillary Clinton voters that she hates so much. You hate neoliberals, and their use of identity politics, but you wanna feel sorry for white supremacists who use identity politics, want to wipe us off the map, and you want to engage them in intellectual conversations? So they can see our humanity? FOH! How many of these bernie or die fools have friends who don't think highly of black people? I can't tell who's worst on the left- berniebros or liberals? They all fukking wishy washy on race.






