Neoliberalism shifts racial discrimination into the privatized sphere where the state cannot intervene

Evidence

An example from a different social context will suffice to illustrate the implications of a policy such as this. In Paris, having run out of beef one day, a privately run soup kitchen discovered by accident that if it made soup with pork, neither Muslims nor Jews would eat it. This “identity soup,” as it came to be called, served as the rallying cry for those explicitly considering Europe to be white and Christian, for those calling jingoistically for “Ours before the Others.” The outcry for or against this expression of continental nativism notwithstanding, this sort of private expression would be beyond the reach of state restriction in the US and elsewhere (though a number of municipalities in France subsequently banned it). — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1768 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racial secularization displaces sovereign control from state to privatized economic forces — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1628; Private racial exclusions fall outside state reach under neoliberalism — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1768; Neoliberal urban governance produces racially differentiated poverty through market mechanisms — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 5 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Private discrimination becomes legally untouchable under neoliberal restructuring #expands (0.92) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1768