Private racial exclusions fall outside state reach under neoliberalism

Evidence

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). The neoliberalizing of race accordingly entails the delimitation of public interventions to curtail racisms and the discriminations on which they invariably rest. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1768

Categorization

• CANDY: The ‘identity soup’ pork anecdote is a vivid, micro example of private discrimination shielded from state remedy.
• XREF: Parallels with the reader’s ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ article - food taboos as religio-ethnic boundary markers weaponized by nativists. — connects to: Neoliberalism shifts racial discrimination into the privatized sphere where the state cannot intervene; Race persists under neoliberalism by mutating into coded private arrangements — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1845; Neoliberalism removed race from public vocabulary while privatizing it — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1781 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism shifts racial discrimination into the privatized sphere where the state cannot intervene #corroborates (1.00)
• Race persists under neoliberalism by mutating into coded private arrangements #corroborates (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1845
• Neoliberalism removed race from public vocabulary while privatizing it #corroborates (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1781
• Neoliberal racism persists by privatizing institutional racism and dropping racial language #corroborates (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1872
• Neoliberal globalization privatizes institutional racisms stripped of explicit labels #corroborates (0.85)
• Privatizing race frees racism to circulate unchecked in private life #expands (0.80)