Moderate-sounding native-born critics of their own countries reinforce imperial racism

Evidence

The postracial attacks triggered counterattacks from antiracists, pointing out racial discrimination from Twitter to Facebook, from Hip Hop to Black Studies scholarship, from shows on MSNBC to Sirius XM Progress, and from periodicals like The Nation to The Root, which then triggered counterattacks from postracialists, who called these antiracists divisive and racist. Assimilationists, stuck in the middle, considered themselves the voices of reasonable moderation. They kept up the drumbeat of the ill-conceived allegory of how far the nation had come and how far it still had to go. The actual American history of racial progress and the simultaneous progression of racism still did not suit their ideology. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1234 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Liberal rhetoric can mask imperial racism as benevolence; Liberal hegemonic soft power rhetoric masked imperial ethnocentric racism.; Critique from within a colonial power system is entangled with the critic’s own interests — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1434 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Native informers give empire’s anti-Muslim arguments false legitimacy from within #exemplifies (0.90)
• The racial debate cycles through antiracist and postracialist attacks with assimilationists self-positioned as moderate #exemplifies (0.82) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1234
• Liberal rhetoric can mask imperial racism as benevolence #corroborates (0.80)
• Liberal hegemonic soft power rhetoric masked imperial ethnocentric racism. #corroborates (0.80)
• Critique from within a colonial power system is entangled with the critic’s own interests #qualifies (0.78) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1434