Anti-radical elites dropped racial targets to attack labor as foreign
Evidence
Then the Argonaut forgot the Chinese and turned on the labor movement as a foreign insurrection. Let us prepare, Pixley thundered, to meet these aliens “with ball and bayonet.” Thenceforth the paper was furiously and inveterately antiforeign. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 189
Categorization
- XREF: Shows the enemy category switching targets — race to class — within one publication, evidence enemies are manufactured and mobile rather than fixed primordial groups. — connects to: Generalized anti-foreign attacks historically precede targeting a group as a unique racial menace — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 518; Racial ideas were deployed to deflect economic class resentment away from elites — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 711; Racial and radical anti-foreign attacks coexisted, not supplanted one another — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 818 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Racial ideas were deployed to deflect economic class resentment away from elites
#responds-to(0.80) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 711 - Racial and radical anti-foreign attacks coexisted, not supplanted one another
#contradicts(0.80) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 818 - Generalized anti-foreign attacks historically precede targeting a group as a unique racial menace
#expands(0.75) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 518 - Industrial capital weaponized racism to fragment the labor movement
#corroborates(0.75) - Business elites organized against labor via church infiltration after World War II
#contradicts(0.72) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1446