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Robin D.G. Kelley, a historian at UCLA whose scholarship on #RacialInjustice also landed him on the #ProfessorWatchlist, is struck by how rapidly our society has changed since #Trump took office a 2nd time.
Kelley pointed to the fact that Trump was widely condemned during his first term when he called the #WhiteSupremacists who rallied in #Charlottesville, VA, “very fine people.”
Orr recently left their home state of WV, finding it no longer safe after being threatened & assaulted.
#Kirk’s rhetoric of “#Christian #white #nationalism, anti- #transgender, …anti-woke culture-war framing, this isn’t on the edge anymore,” Orr said. “It has moved into what many consider the center of #Republican identity.” They said they were deeply concerned about how few people seemed willing to point out the consequences of this shift: “Who is actually fighting for us?”
Robin D.G. Kelley, a historian at UCLA whose scholarship on #RacialInjustice also landed him on the #ProfessorWatchlist, is struck by how rapidly our society has changed since #Trump took office a 2nd time.
Kelley pointed to the fact that Trump was widely condemned during his first term when he called the #WhiteSupremacists who rallied in #Charlottesville, VA, “very fine people.”
Now, #Democrats & #centrists were lining up to honor a man who promoted the same #GreatReplacementTheory that served as the rallying cry for that march. At a time when the president of the #US is using his power to go after #diversity efforts & engaging in a #MassDeportation project, some #progressives are arguing that #POC, #immigrants & members of other marginalized groups who felt dehumanized by #Kirk’s commentary, podcasts & debates have to find a way to locate common ground w/his followers.
“There has been an #extreme shift,” Kelley said. “This treatment is authorizing the idea that #WhiteSupremacy & #racism is not just a conservative idea, but a legitimate one.”
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