Neoliberal multiculturalism masks racist imperial policy under Biden

Evidence

In this, my concern is to mold a critical analytics and a critical analytic vocabulary towards comprehending racially driven neoliberalisms and neoliberally fueled racisms: racial regionalizations and critical regionalisms, born again racisms and social prophylaxis, enduring occupations and permanently temporary states, euro-mimesis and Muslimania, mixture and violent duress, political theology of race and racial secularization, racial compulsions and their resistances, socialities of the skin and racial evaporations, racisms without racism and neo-neoliberalism, homogenizing and heterogenizing dispositions. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 27 (#expands, via linked claim)

Affirmative action was considered unacceptable to the neoliberalizing stress on individual merit because it was taken to reward undeserving people on the basis of group attributes or achievements, not on individual effort and excellence. Indeed, for neoliberals committed to privatizing individualization, the standard racism – rewarding people for no reason other than their membership in a racial group – came to be affirmative action (or “positive discrimination” in Europe). Liberalism’s very instrument for undoing the effects of racism became neoliberalism’s poster child for the condition of racism itself. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1762 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Biden’s return to liberal Islamophobia continues imperial drone and Israel policies. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 532; Biden premised returning to liberal empire rather than ending imperial policies; Liberal multicultural representation can mask ongoing racially exclusionary imperial policy — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 544 (+16 more)

Broader Connections

• Contemporary racism and neoliberalism are mutually constitutive forces needing a new analytic vocabulary #expands (1.00) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 27
• Neoliberalism redefined affirmative action as the racism it was designed to oppose #qualifies (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1762
• Neoliberalism shifts racial discrimination into the privatized sphere where the state cannot intervene #qualifies (0.94)
• Neoliberal racism persists by privatizing institutional racism and dropping racial language #qualifies (0.93) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1872
• Neoliberal globalization privatizes institutional racisms stripped of explicit labels #qualifies (0.92)
• Critical multiculturalism links culture to power while retaining group-based emancipatory politics #complicates (0.85)
• Every US president from Bush through Biden sustained the global War on Terror #complicates (0.75)