White fear includes the view that racial equality ends white America

Evidence

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. “This breeds paranoia, among elite and non-elites alike,” Douthat noted. “Among the white working class, increasingly the most reliable Republican constituency, alienation from the American meritocracy fuels the kind of racial conspiracy theories that [Glenn] Beck and others have exploited.” — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 241

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the book’s larger value-gap thesis and connects to current arguments about ‘replacement’ fears and racial resentment in politics.