Official antiracist response is structurally complicit with the racist violence it condemns

Evidence

What we have to face therefore is the fact of structural complicity between the spectacle of racist violence and the standpoint of official antiracist horror. I am not talking here of a certain “mirroring” between the rhetorical styles of racist/fascist/far right organizations and some antiracist/antifascist/far left groups, although this certainly exists. I mean that we have to begin our analysis, and our activism, from a recognition that in racism’s Other scene there are no hard and fast lines to be drawn between “two legs bad” and “four legs good.” — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1413

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the vault-wide treatment of antiracism as a site of production, not just reaction — parallels racial formation as a relational field. — connects to: Official anti-racist discourse conveys racism through disclaimers and negative other-presentation. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1119; Antiracist horror is structurally complicit in racist spectacle
• QUESTION: What does the author concretely mean for antiracist activism to begin from ‘no hard and fast lines’? The provocation is asserted more than substantiated here.

Broader Connections

• Antiracist horror is structurally complicit in racist spectacle #corroborates (0.92)