Liberal multicultural representation can mask ongoing racially exclusionary imperial policy
Evidence
In his article in Foreign Affairs titled “Why America Must Lead Again,” Biden has promised to do both and to restore Obama era policies. As he states: “The triumph of democracy and liberalism over fascism and autocracy created the free world. But this contest does not just define our past. It will define our future, as well.” This will translate into a return to soft power and a rejection of the blatant right-wing racism of the Trump era. Most significantly, Trump eschewed the “good Muslim, bad Muslim” approach (with the exception of Saudi Arabia) and opened the door to right-wing Islamophobia. Biden has rejected this approach. We might therefore expect a return to liberal Islamophobia and the accommodationist approach. … In short, as of this writing, it appears that the United States is headed into a third Obama term with a multiracial and female-heavy leadership team ensuring a process where neoliberal multiculturalism, as it has in the past, will paper over racist imperial policies. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 544
Categorization
- XREF: Pays off earlier extracted claims that diversity rhetoric leaves structural anti-Muslim racism untouched and that imperial branding shifted to multiracial feminist inclusion to deflect racism charges. — connects to: Imperial branding shifted from white masculinity to multiracial feminist inclusion to deflect racism charges — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 406; Biden premised returning to liberal empire rather than ending imperial policies; Liberal rhetoric can mask imperial racism as benevolence (+9 more)
Broader Connections
- Liberal rhetoric can mask imperial racism as benevolence
#corroborates(0.95) - Liberal hegemonic soft power rhetoric masked imperial ethnocentric racism.
#corroborates(0.92) - Inclusion politics masks empire from charges of racism
#corroborates(0.90) - Liberal rejection of open Islamophobia masks the same racializing policies
#corroborates(0.90) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 622 - Neoliberal multiculturalism masks racist imperial policy under Biden
#exemplifies(0.88) - Liberal-reformist Islamophobia remains imperial racism cloaked in benevolence
#exemplifies(0.82) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 500 - LGBTQ inclusion served imperial racial othering of Muslims
#exemplifies(0.80) - Anti-Muslim racism remains entrenched despite Muslim inclusion in imperial systems
#expands(0.80) - Liberal Islamophobia and right-wing racism are interchangeable imperial instruments
#expands(0.78) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 544 - Cultural difference is racialized into immutable grounds for excluding Muslims from citizenship
#complicates(0.75)