Democracy or Whiteness? The Choice Ahead for the GOP

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Jay Kuo
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We know what many in the GOP have chosen. My thoughts on 2042 and the anxiety and fear it produces, with a strong nod to Isabel Wilkerson, author of Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents.

Democracy or Whiteness?
The Choice Ahead for the GOP
statuskuo.substack.com
7:52 AM · Apr 17, 2021

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/democracy-or-whiteness

2042. That’s the year when demographic experts anticipate white Americans will no longer comprise the majority in the United States. The closer we get to this pivotal and historic point, the more consternation, reaction and vitriol we will witness from the right. It likely will lead to even greater violence and upheaval because of a simple fact: Much of the country simply cannot process the idea of an America that does not cater to them as the white majority.

In her profound work Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson recounts a back-and-forth she once had with Taylor Branch, a historian of the Civil Rights movement, in November 2018. They sought to find a parallel between what the U.S. is undergoing presently and what other nations and eras experienced in the past. Eleven Jewish worshippers had just been gunned down a month earlier at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. Charlottesville had happened the year before but was still on both their minds. Migrant children were being separated from their parents at the border. MAGA was in full force.

The two wondered, Are we back in the U.S. circa 1950, a time to which those in power then would surely prefer to return us? Or are we closer to Weimar Republic Germany of the early 1930s, a failing state vulnerable to opportunistic fascism and extremist hate?

Or perhaps we are South Africa at the end of Apartheid, where a white minority that long held all the power was terrified to relinquish it and assume a lesser place as a political minority in a fledgling democracy?

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[Mister Ed]

1. I think the GOP has already made its choice. n/t

[Hortensis]

2. This. If they succeed, their next choice be what form of authoritarian state,

though only some may make that choice.

[Johnny2X2X]

5. This exactly

They already chose. And they already chose Trump.

[jimfields33]

3. I actually think the GQP will accept minority status

And suddenly approve of affirmative action in all segments of society. GQP afterall are quite hypocritical to the max.

[jmbar2]

4. Says it all in three words - Democracy or Whiteness

Should be on protest signs

[pidge]

6. I don't understand why the killing of Jews relates to whiteness.

[Marcuse]

7. It simply requires a mindset in which Jews are not human, let alone white.