Coded anti-public rhetoric can express racial fears without race words
Evidence
In a single sentence, without ever mentioning race, Newt Gingrich had managed to tie together suburban concerns over public transportation, public housing, and public education just as whites around Atlanta had been doing for four decades. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 582
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to claims already extracted about respectable segregationists framing exclusion as individual choice and the Civil Rights Act empowering color-blind anti-government conservatism. — connects to: Segregationists understood resistance as defending their own rights and freedoms — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 31; Racist meaning can be conveyed without explicit racial reference; Politically coded language can carry racial meaning without naming race (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Politically coded language can carry racial meaning without naming race
#corroborates(0.95) - Racist meaning can be conveyed without explicit racial reference
#corroborates(0.92) - Color-blind rhetoric functioned as an arsenal of racist dog whistles
#corroborates(0.90) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 488 - Moralized character language masked race-coded political exclusion in Indies administration
#exemplifies(0.88) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 802 - Racial prejudice can be primed without explicitly racist appeals
#corroborates(0.85) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2173 - Color-blind rhetoric reframes discrimination claims as fabricated race-card plays.
#corroborates(0.82) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1204