Trump and Stephen Miller capitalize on white America's fear its racial identity is losing value

NBC "News" ^ | December 16, 2019 | By Emily Walton

[Oldeconomybuyer]

At a recent rally, President Donald Trump got cheers from supporters as he positioned himself and his administration as an important line of defense in the supposed “War on Thanksgiving,” an evocative image of the threat posed by progressives to America’s cherished cultural traditions, as they wish to include a more inclusive narrative of the holiday’s history.

A clearer example of the racially divisive attitudes harbored and perhaps even enabled by this administration is represented by White House adviser, Stephen Miller. Miller was recently found to have written hundreds of emails demonstrating his support for white nationalist ideology.

Whether spinning wild conspiracy theories about Thanksgiving or pushing xenophobic policy proposals, Trump officials have done little to foster racial and socioeconomic solidarity. So why are such extremist views tolerated in America?

As a sociologist who studies race relations, I argue that feelings of racial identity threat are behind this tolerance. These feelings are not limited to white people but occur among both those in the cultural majority and those on the cultural margins as they work to hold onto and attain cultural citizenship.

Cultural citizenship is the achievement of full, unabridged membership in a social group.

Beyond politics, what might it look like in our daily lives to be racially expansive in our definition of cultural citizenship? We must model multiculturalism in every interaction, establishing connections and trust between neighbors, coworkers, teachers, students and friends.

Racial identity threat is at the heart of racial division in this country, as whites strive to hold on to a narrow definition of cultural citizenship and people of color strive to broaden it. If we can expand the notion of what “fitting in” means, maybe we can reduce the anxiety people of all races feel about having and holding onto their piece of the pie.

[moovova]

Emily Walton...fruitcake.

Much simpler...

[OttawaFreeper]

Well, these two and their sugar daddies capitalize on peoples' fear and ignorance over firearms and related issues.

[Macoozie]

“racially divisive attitudes”

If we didn’t bring the un-assimilatable Third World into this wonderful place, we wouldn’t even have to deal with this shiite!

For all of those who came here and BECAME AMERICAN, you are welcomed with open arms. You can help welcome and ASSIMILATE the next groups coming in.

For all of those race hustling, race baiting weak willed, over-mis-educated white guilt trippin’ trash, EFF YOU.

Go live in the shiiteholes our NEW ASSIMILIATED AMERICANS came from. That’s where you belong.

[lastchance]

Translation: “I must retain tenure.”

[a fool in paradise]

There are funds and panels to preserve cultural traditions and celebrate artwork, song, and literature by generations of native and indigenous people around the world, yet anything created by white heteronormative males are considered outmoded and to be reviled (or recontextualized) these days.

Shakespeare is out of the universities now. Just another dead white male.

[forgotten man]

Sociology degrees are for people who cannot pass a math class.

[a fool in paradise]

She wants to maintain her role as the token wyppl on staff.

[MNJohnnie]

False

Black “intellectuals” deliberate foster a fraudulent racial narrative in the USA to maintain the political subservience of minorities to the White Liberal establishment of the Democrat Racist Party

[right way right]

Racism and division is the lifeblood of the SJW industry.

[setter]

Hell yes I fear our country losing it’s white identity-work ethic.
I’ve been to many non white countries and have seen what those folks consider normal.

I am a proud Walt Kowalski.

[L,TOWM]

Didn’t even need to read the bio to recognize a lilliputian mind, incapable of self-examining its own views, biases, and assumptions to see a larger world that actually does a lot of really complicated things for a variety of motives...

bias being an insignificant motive in a tiny subset of human behavior. What a horrible way to waste a mind and a life.

[glorgau]

It’s OK to be white.

[gaijin]

"I argue that feelings of racial identity threat are behind this tolerance [of 'conspiracy theory']

The left does this all the same --"You're mad cuz YOU ARE WEAK."

Same thing with guns:

"You only like guns cuz your d*ck is small."

The idea is that you show how YUGE it is by reversing your advocacy for guns, or whatever.

It's the type of strategy that only works on someone who is STUPID.

She's asking us to show how big and unthreatened we are by LAYING BACK AND *TAKING IT*.

Can you imagine saying to Rosa Parks:

"Go back and sit in the back and we promise to consider you really big and strong"

Sounds outlandish, right..?

[TLI]

My research raises important questions about the consequences of this demographic transition, offers novel theoretical frameworks for addressing these questions, and provides new empirical evidence about racial disparities and inequality in the United States."

No it does not raise "important questions."

It raises questions on her sanity.

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[The Toll]

Somebody get this clown a burka and punch in the mouth.

[TakebackGOP]

Posts like this are why Free Republic has a hard time raising funds.

[TADSLOS]

Whether spinning wild conspiracy theories about Thanksgiving or pushing xenophobic policy proposals, Trump officials have done little to foster racial and socioeconomic solidarity. So why are such extremist views tolerated in America?

LMAO!

Nice try, commie.

[BobL]

Thanks for the picture - that pretty much explains it.

[Carriage Hill]

She’s a “watermelon”.
Green outside; red inside.

[Bullish]

They’ve destroyed any semblance of any value in education. They’re not gonna’ give this crap up until we have to beat it out of them. It’s only a matter of time.