Multiracial Whiteness
The following is from my Culture War Encyclopedia.
“Multiracial whiteness” - In a few words, this is a term for colorblind multi-ethnic or racially diverse politics that are somehow racist and white in the rhetoric of, for example, Cristina Beltrán in her piece for the Washington Post “Opinion: To understand Trump’s support, we must think in terms of multiracial Whiteness” (Jan 15, 2021) [archive]. It seems to be a way to call Trump supporters racist and white when they are neither.
According to Beltrán, multiracial whiteness is the “phenomenon”, which “anyone can join”, of “the promise that” not just whites but also “non-White participants” of “White mob violence” can “lay claim to the politics of aggression, exclusion and domination”. She writes furthermore,
Rooted in America’s ugly history of white supremacy, indigenous dispossession and anti-blackness, multiracial whiteness is an ideology invested in the unequal distribution of land, wealth, power and privilege — a form of hierarchy in which the standing of one section of the population is premised on the debasement of others. Multiracial whiteness reflects an understanding of whiteness as a political color and not simply a racial identity — a discriminatory worldview in which feelings of freedom and belonging are produced through the persecution and dehumanization of others.
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.
Here, the politics of exclusion, violence and demonization are available to all.
Yet, somehow, this inclusion of all is racist. She continues…
If you want to speak Spanish and celebrate a quinceañera in your family, go ahead. If you want to be a Proud Boy, be a Proud Boy. Trump doesn’t care. As long as you love him, he’ll love you.
Oh the horror! The racism! She stresses the importance of…
trying to prevent the politics of whiteness from becoming an increasingly multiracial affair.
As the Truth Troll, I can’t imagine being this on the nose with my sarcastic imitation of the far-left. Extremism is indistinguishable from parody of it.
As Steve QJ writes, in “A New Brand Of “Woke Racism” Is Upon Us” (Jan 19, 2021)…
If I weren’t so busy trembling with rage, I might feel a grudging admiration for an argument which is so profoundly, nay, ascendantly racist. It’s no small feat to simultaneously suggest that people of colour are (or at least should be) a political monolith, that whiteness is an unalloyed expression of evil, and that the only way people of colour could ever think in a way she doesn’t approve of is if deep down, they aren’t people of colour at all…
…That’s right. In the same breath as she condemns the politics of exclusion and demonization, Cristina courageously demonizes these people by conflating their views with the very worst of Trump’s supporters. She then excludes them from their racial identity as punishment. Breathtaking. It’s worth noting that she describes one of the organisers of the “Stop the Steal” movement as “identifying” as Black and Arab, rather than being Black and Arab. Perhaps if that uppity “multiracial white” steps back in line, she’ll give him back the rights to his ancestry…
…I’m just happy to see people of colour being infantilised and marginalised in this way. Surely we can all agree that the best way to treat those with differing opinions isn’t to focus on our common ground and try to understand each other but to discard them not only politically, but racially. By erasing the identity of everybody we disagree with, we can ensure that people of colour become the homogenous mass of groupthink Cristina imagines us to be…
Douglas Murray referred to “multiracial whiteness” as…
a way to explain how ethnic minorities might have voted for the republican candidate. In these settings, in which you could get black-white people, though not white-black people, it becomes clear that “black” and “white” had simply become synonyms for “good” and “bad.”
Also see “The terrifying scourge of ‘multiracial whiteness’” by Cockburn for the Spectator (Jan 18, 2021). An other entry in my encyclopedia is “multicultural conservatism” in which I explain…
This is described as the “conservative politics of reaching out to other racial minorities” and “an effort to recognize the specific histories and backgrounds of particular racial populations and to say that they could be part of the GOP” by Cristina Beltrán in an interview with NPR. She said that this includes, “people of color” who “want to be understood as simply Americans” instead of as “people of color”.
As Justin Trouble the truth Troll, I am envious of Beltrán for, you see, I think she is a truth troll ho got one over on the Washington Post by fooling them into thinking that she’s sincere about this mind-numbing, anti-intellectual stupidity.
Thank you.
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Laughter my shield ∴ Knowledge my steed
Love my solace ∴ Honor my reward
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