There is no way to avoid the fact that the politics of redistributive policy in the United States is racialized. Studiously avoiding anti-racist language or mentions of race period does not actually stop or defuse this dynamic, and may actually make the policies more vulnerable.
https://twitter.com/paulcrider/status/1385076901761277957
Or to pose in the form of a question, how does one adjust race-neutral messaging for universal policies when opponents correctly point out that those policies will disproportionately help low-income black and brown Americans and argue (falsely) that this makes them “welfare?”
As an aside, many of these arguments feel as if we are low-key relitigating the 1990s with no acknowledgement of the fact that the Clintonite strategy of running against (black) liberalism did not actually work to insulate the Democratic Party from racialized attacks.
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