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(1/5) This piece gets it wrong in two ways. 1st Biden didn't actually acknowledge white supremacy. At minimum, he would have had to condemn the ongoing police terror in black and brown communities across the country https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/opinion/biden-white-supremacy.html?smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwAR1eSgHtohNfzorKw5nfc2FdWn9nWykllHzhVkg99-98lptBjDC2essZssQ
(2/5) that sparked a summer of mass protest and denounce the carceral state that he played no small part in creating. Reducing white supremacy to the actions of the far right is little more than an exercise in feel-good liberalism.
(3/5)And just as white supremacy can't be reduced to the actions of the right, the right can't be reduced to white supremacy. The Trump electoral coalition was surprising for increased support it garnered among various non-white groups for a variety of reasons.
(4/5) Indeed, even groups who were most prominent in the January 6 - Proud Boys, Oath keepers, 3 Percenters - go to great lengths to denounce white supremacy and white nationalism across all their public profiles. Race is key to the right, but it is only one of its many terms.
(5/5) So on the one hand we have institutional white supremacy in the US that our new Democratic leadership has long been complicit in, and a growing right that is actively scrambling racial codes. We need better tools and new interpretive frameworks to understand these dynamics.
