"At the outset, it’s appropriate to recognize that the recent uptick in rhetoric about the importance of America’s 'heritage' is nothing more than repainted racism.

"At the outset, it’s appropriate to recognize that the recent uptick in rhetoric about the importance of America’s 'heritage' is nothing more than repainted racism. It is no more complicated than Southern insistences that an embrace of the Confederacy is similarly about heritage, when the defining characteristic of the Confederacy was its unrelenting commitment to enslaving Black people."

~ Philip Bump

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #EthnicCleansing
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https://www.ms.now/opinion/elon-musk-white-immigration-american-heritage?ref=howtoreadthisch.art

"When we see a social media account for President Donald Trump’s White House share a message about being 'unapologetic in our heritage,' we correctly understand that as an extension of 'making America great again' — unwinding America’s evolving diversity in favor of a society that continues to hand advantages to whites and men while pretending they are simply the natural state of things."

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #EthnicCleansing #racism
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"When we see Trump ally Elon Musk and others insist that this heritage is inextricably white — a culture of 'English-Scotts-Irish origin,' in Musk’s verbiage — the point is not hard to perceive. ...

Descriptions of U.S. heritage and culture in terms of ethnic and racial groups beyond the familiar 'melting pot' metaphor are inherently political."

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #EthnicCleansing #racism #ElonMusk
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"At the outset, it’s appropriate to recognize that the recent uptick in rhetoric about the importance of America’s 'heritage' is nothing more than repainted racism. It is no more complicated than Southern insistences that an embrace of the Confederacy is similarly about heritage, when the defining characteristic of the Confederacy was its unrelenting commitment to enslaving Black people."

~ Philip Bump

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #EthnicCleansing
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https://www.ms.now/opinion/elon-musk-white-immigration-american-heritage?ref=howtoreadthisch.art

@wdlindsy I read an article by Jonathan Chait following the resignations at the Heritage Foundation where he talked about how shocking it is that the leadership is openly embracing antisemitism.

On the one hand, he has a point; they used to use dogwhistles and now they don't, they're completely upfront in their white supremacy.

But on the other, Chait doesn't seem to understand that they *were* using dogwhistles before. Which raises the question of what the hell he thought "Heritage" meant.

"When we see Trump ally Elon Musk and others insist that this heritage is inextricably white — a culture of 'English-Scotts-Irish origin,' in Musk’s verbiage — the point is not hard to perceive. ...

Descriptions of U.S. heritage and culture in terms of ethnic and racial groups beyond the familiar 'melting pot' metaphor are inherently political."

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #EthnicCleansing #racism #ElonMusk
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"At the outset, it’s appropriate to recognize that the recent uptick in rhetoric about the importance of America’s 'heritage' is nothing more than repainted racism. It is no more complicated than Southern insistences that an embrace of the Confederacy is similarly about heritage, when the defining characteristic of the Confederacy was its unrelenting commitment to enslaving Black people."

~ Philip Bump

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #EthnicCleansing
/1

https://www.ms.now/opinion/elon-musk-white-immigration-american-heritage?ref=howtoreadthisch.art