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Con questo articolo su The Federalist, David Marcus analizza la questione razziale nella società statunitense all’indomani della vittoria di Trump; tra le considerazioni dell’autore, il fatto che il periodo tra gli anni ’70 e l’inizio degli anni 2000 sia stato caratterizzato da una forma di “distensione razziale”:

The rules of the deal were pretty straightforward. For whites, they stated that outright racist statements and explicit appeals to white racial identity were essentially banned. Along with this, whites accepted a double standard about the appropriateness of cultural and political tribalism. For obvious and reasonable historical and economic reasons, black and brown people explicitly pursuing their own interests was viewed differently than whites doing the same thing. The other side of the deal was that so long as white people were sufficiently punished for acts of outright racism, minority leaders and communities would be cautious with accusations of racism.

In seguito diventa però popolare la teoria del “privilegio bianco” che, secondo Marcus, avrebbe scatenato in reazione una risorgenza del “tribalismo bianco”

White people are constantly told to examine their whiteness, not to think of themselves as racially neutral. That they did, but the result was not introspection that led to reconciliation, it was a decision that white people have just as much right to think of themselves as a special interest group as anyone else.

 

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