Race-evaporation recasts racism claims as offenses against society itself.

Evidence

Racial evaporation prompts racial skepticism. It prompts skepticism in the context of robust mixture of the very wrongs being claimed to offend in the first instance. Where’s the offense? How bad can it be? The offense, if admitted, is less about the exclusions, inequities, or iniquities prompted by the racial characterization so much as it is an offense against society as such for invoking the offending term to begin with. The harm identified is less that to the individual or group who have consequently suffered loss than to the society for having to deal with the nonsense of race itself. Can we just get over it, ignore it, will it into oblivion as though it never existed and left no legacy? It once marked individuals, to be sure, but now it has (and should have) no reference point, no measure, no determination. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1801

Categorization

• XREF: The relocation of harm from victim to society resembles ‘complaint fatigue’ dynamics; connects to reader’s threatened-privilege mechanism where the privileged read the claim itself as the harm. — connects to: Racial humiliation is recast as fiscal and security threat language. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1758; Accusations of reverse racism now frame people of color as the racists.; Evaporating race shifts the offense from the harm to the utterance of the term (+3 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: The inversion — invoking race harms society more than race harms victims — is a dense, portable diagnostic of denial rhetoric that could reframe many debates.

Broader Connections

• Evaporating race shifts the offense from the harm to the utterance of the term #expands (0.90)
• Accusations of reverse racism now frame people of color as the racists. #expands (0.85)
• Race’s rendered irrelevance stigmatizes antiracist invocation as the real racism #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1863
• The very accusation of racism has become a breach of civility #expands (0.80)
• A raceless society denies racism while constantly re-invoking the terms of its denial. #corroborates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 697