08-28-2019, 06:34 PM
It doesn’t have to include a white hood or armband or salute to be overt.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2019/08/21...uit-court/
“Despite all of the evidence to the contrary, Donald Trump claims that he doesn’t have a racist bone in his body. Meanwhile, his enablers blame the rise in white supremacist terrorism on liberals.
When charges that the president is racist reach a crescendo, it is almost always over something he has said (or tweeted), like telling four congresswomen of color that they should “go back” to the countries they “originally came from.” (Three of the four American legislators were born in the U.S.) But Trump doesn’t just say racist things, he regularly demonstrates it with his actions. For example, last Thursday, he nominated Steven Menashi to serve on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
According to Menashi’s biography, he graduated from Stanford Law School, clerked for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, served as acting general counsel in Betsy DeVos’s Department of Education, and then became a senior associate counsel in Trump’s White House.
The day after Menashi’s nomination was announced, Rachel Maddow did a segment about him, revealing something that didn’t tend to show up in the summaries about his background. She focused most of her attention on a paper written by Menashi titled, “Ethnonationalism and Liberal Democracy.” Here is one of the quotes she highlighted.
Democratic self-government depends on national fellow-feeling: the capacity of citizens to identify with each other, to respect their competing political claims, and to trust that others will do the same.
Ethnic ties provide the groundwork for social trust and political solidarity and, universalist aspirations notwithstanding, continue to do so. At the same time, social scientists have found that greater ethnic heterogeneity is associated with lower social trust. Ethnically heterogeneous societies exhibit less political and civic engagement, less effective governing institutions, and fewer public goods. The sociologist Robert Putnam has concluded that greater ethnic diversity weakens social solidarity, fosters social isolation, and inhibits social capital…
These findings confirm that the solidarity underlying democratic polities rests in large part on ethnic identification.
Menashi’s defenders, like Ed Whelan, have gone after Maddow, claiming that she mislead her audience by not acknowledging that he was talking specifically about Israel.”
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2019/08/21...uit-court/
“Despite all of the evidence to the contrary, Donald Trump claims that he doesn’t have a racist bone in his body. Meanwhile, his enablers blame the rise in white supremacist terrorism on liberals.
When charges that the president is racist reach a crescendo, it is almost always over something he has said (or tweeted), like telling four congresswomen of color that they should “go back” to the countries they “originally came from.” (Three of the four American legislators were born in the U.S.) But Trump doesn’t just say racist things, he regularly demonstrates it with his actions. For example, last Thursday, he nominated Steven Menashi to serve on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
According to Menashi’s biography, he graduated from Stanford Law School, clerked for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, served as acting general counsel in Betsy DeVos’s Department of Education, and then became a senior associate counsel in Trump’s White House.
The day after Menashi’s nomination was announced, Rachel Maddow did a segment about him, revealing something that didn’t tend to show up in the summaries about his background. She focused most of her attention on a paper written by Menashi titled, “Ethnonationalism and Liberal Democracy.” Here is one of the quotes she highlighted.
Democratic self-government depends on national fellow-feeling: the capacity of citizens to identify with each other, to respect their competing political claims, and to trust that others will do the same.
Ethnic ties provide the groundwork for social trust and political solidarity and, universalist aspirations notwithstanding, continue to do so. At the same time, social scientists have found that greater ethnic heterogeneity is associated with lower social trust. Ethnically heterogeneous societies exhibit less political and civic engagement, less effective governing institutions, and fewer public goods. The sociologist Robert Putnam has concluded that greater ethnic diversity weakens social solidarity, fosters social isolation, and inhibits social capital…
These findings confirm that the solidarity underlying democratic polities rests in large part on ethnic identification.
Menashi’s defenders, like Ed Whelan, have gone after Maddow, claiming that she mislead her audience by not acknowledging that he was talking specifically about Israel.”