Progressive students who actually pursued racial equality threatened the social order
Evidence
Instead of negotiations, they issued ultimatums; instead of compromise, they sought confrontation. Most important, instead of helping to promote Atlanta’s positive image, the students shrewdly sought to use that image—and its contrast with reality—to achieve their ends. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 415 (
#exemplifies, via linked claim)
No sooner had these shifts been successfully signaled, if not fully effected, than the force(s) of racial order reached for the formalism of the law. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 128 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Such color-blindness would be rich in irony given another of white fear’s many facets: the fear that genuine racial equality requires the end of white America. That would be the ultimate revenge—the disappearance of white folk altogether. Some believe that black freedom—economic, political, and otherwise—threatens the freedom of white people. The conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat wrote that many white people believe the nation is hell-bent on handing over the country to underrepresented groups; that all pathways to success for hardworking white people have been shut down. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 241 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Racial order responded to each mobilizing threat with formal legal equality — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 128; Staunch-democrat students’ egalitarianism reflected status insecurity, not socialist conviction — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2351; Student activists weaponized Atlanta’s progressive image against its own moderates — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 415 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Student activists weaponized Atlanta’s progressive image against its own moderates
#exemplifies(0.88) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 415 - Racial order responded to each mobilizing threat with formal legal equality
#expands(0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 128 - Many whites frame racial equality as a zero-sum threat to white survival
#expands(0.76) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 241 - Staunch-democrat students’ egalitarianism reflected status insecurity, not socialist conviction
#qualifies(0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2351 - Students’ resistance to metropolitan racism produced a defensive ideology of parochial cultural pride.
#exemplifies(0.72) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 178