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The Far Right Is Becoming Obsessed With Race and IQ (www.theatlantic.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Meet the new right, same as the old right.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is such an interesting topic!

I completely agree that race as an idea as steeped in false science and racism, but I always find it really difficult to consider race when it's used as a positive force as well- movements like US civil rights have massively reduced racism, partly by using race as a concept (such as black pride).

On the flip side, neoliberalism often advocates "color-blindness" as an idea (don't acknowledge/consider people's race) which is a great ideal, but in practice often seems to amount to turning a blind eye to on going racism.

[–] LustyArgonianMana 3 points 3 months ago

Colorblindness has its roots in white settler colonialism over Native Americans, including the schools they made them go to. This helped settlers assert their claim to these lands.

That's why it's not as common in the south, where it was important to hilight race to assert control over black people.

The historical context of race is what still affects people to this day.

I think ethnicity and intersectionality are a better thing to focus on when around others (more socially acceptable and less threatening/charged), along with individual experience. Race is just one way to look at somebody but there's many many other layers and they all work together.