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White Genocide is fake news.
“White Genocide” and the Myth of White Victimhood
February 25, 2017February 25, 2017 abolitionjournal Intervention, Interview
[George Ciccariello-Maher interviewed by Daniel Denvir – Part 1 – transcribed from The Dig, Episode 10 – (slightly edited for clarity).
White genocide is a paranoid conspiracy theory held by white supremacists who, on the one hand, believe in race as a biological reality and believe that whites are under existential threat by multicultural policies and intermarriage and every time a mixed baby is born, that the white race suffers a fatal blow.
Starting in the 50’s and 60’s, but especially in the 70’s and 80’s, there was a dramatic transformation in the United States in which the state went from being something that provided public goods for primarily white people to being something that was interpreted as taking things away from white people and giving them to undeserving poor brown and black people. This is something that Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor tracks very well in her new book, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, in terms of this emergence of what’s called the color blind narrative.
If you believe that the world truly operates in a color blind way (which has become the official narrative since the 70’s and 80’s in the United States) then you are primed to think that anyone who is asking for anything from the state is demanding special privileges. For example, black people suffering the weight of mass incarceration and poverty asking for greater equality are seen as asking for something not equal, but special—a privilege that other people don’t have. In particular with reference to affirmative action policies, you have this narrative emerge of white victimhood.
One particularly interesting case is the University of Texas and a sort of mediocre white student being denied entry gives rise to the presumption that she’s being discriminated against because she’s white. To be totally brutally clear, this is absurd, it’s nonsense. The idea that white people, not only in the United States, but in the world, have been systematically victimized by anyone is absurd and is a fantasy and it actually very much goes hand in hand with this white genocide fantasy, although it is a very different manifestation of that. That’s where I think the public is primed to think of these things.
“White Genocide” and the Myth of White Victimhood
This is a fiction inside of the white racist imagination. It's bit happening. It's false, fake news.
“White Genocide” and the Myth of White Victimhood
February 25, 2017February 25, 2017 abolitionjournal Intervention, Interview
[George Ciccariello-Maher interviewed by Daniel Denvir – Part 1 – transcribed from The Dig, Episode 10 – (slightly edited for clarity).
White genocide is a paranoid conspiracy theory held by white supremacists who, on the one hand, believe in race as a biological reality and believe that whites are under existential threat by multicultural policies and intermarriage and every time a mixed baby is born, that the white race suffers a fatal blow.
Starting in the 50’s and 60’s, but especially in the 70’s and 80’s, there was a dramatic transformation in the United States in which the state went from being something that provided public goods for primarily white people to being something that was interpreted as taking things away from white people and giving them to undeserving poor brown and black people. This is something that Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor tracks very well in her new book, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, in terms of this emergence of what’s called the color blind narrative.
If you believe that the world truly operates in a color blind way (which has become the official narrative since the 70’s and 80’s in the United States) then you are primed to think that anyone who is asking for anything from the state is demanding special privileges. For example, black people suffering the weight of mass incarceration and poverty asking for greater equality are seen as asking for something not equal, but special—a privilege that other people don’t have. In particular with reference to affirmative action policies, you have this narrative emerge of white victimhood.
One particularly interesting case is the University of Texas and a sort of mediocre white student being denied entry gives rise to the presumption that she’s being discriminated against because she’s white. To be totally brutally clear, this is absurd, it’s nonsense. The idea that white people, not only in the United States, but in the world, have been systematically victimized by anyone is absurd and is a fantasy and it actually very much goes hand in hand with this white genocide fantasy, although it is a very different manifestation of that. That’s where I think the public is primed to think of these things.
“White Genocide” and the Myth of White Victimhood
This is a fiction inside of the white racist imagination. It's bit happening. It's false, fake news.
