American civic discourse imposes narrow permitted frames for discussing racism and poverty

Evidence

We have to talk about racism in a certain way. Dr. King is the model. We have to invoke love and nonviolence. Talk of white supremacy isn’t allowed. We have to talk about poverty in a certain way. “Ladders of opportunity” are better than redistributive economic policies or what some call “class warfare.” To ignore this is to risk being accused of trading in victim talk or, worse, to be declared “not one of us”—a traitor. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 129

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s prior work on moral panics and discourse norms constraining public speech; also echoes the ‘immodesty’ framing constraints in her published article.
• SEED: An essay angle: the taxonomy of permitted vs forbidden frames in American public discourse about race and class—who polices them and by what sanction.