one of the problems with talking about demographic trendlines dooming the GOP's national prospects is that it presumes that certain segments of POC communities won't become invested in the same imperatives of whiteness.
To wit: this, from today, from @rebekahentralgo: thinkprogress.org/miami-gop-cand…
A central plank of whiteness is a presumption of scarcity: this notion that there’s only so many good jobs or schools to be had, only so many ppl who can enjoy the franchise before the society ceases to function, only so many people who should enjoy the protections of citizenship
And so the people who enjoy the protections of whiteness, whether fully or just provisionally, are going to make sure they remain the beneficiaries of these ostensibly scarce advantages — of top-tier educations, of claims to citizenship. 🙃🙃🙃
It’s not that hard to enlist people in that fight!
Instead of deciding that this arrangement want to be interrogated/dismantled, a whole lot of people want to be enveloped in those same protections.
Instead of deciding that this arrangement want to be interrogated/dismantled, a whole lot of people want to be enveloped in those same protections.
The Black men who fretted about whether Kavanaugh was getting a raw deal, the Cuban Americans in Florida who enjoyed a fast-track to naturalization but want to deny it to other Latinx groups, etc.
Being “provisional” means you might even feel this anxiety over scarcity in an especially acute way! You might be the most zealous people manning the ramparts!
