Private discrimination becomes legally untouchable under neoliberal restructuring

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

Categorization

• SHARE: The ‘identity soup’ episode is a compact, bizarre case study of how a mundane food decision becomes a nativist rallying flag — good for someone working on food-politics or European nativism.
• XREF: connects to: Neoliberal restructuring systematically further privileges the already privileged — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1742