Republicans are ready to talk about racism. But only anti-white racism.

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NEW COLUMN: The GOP was never colorblind. Now its pro-White leaders don't even pretend to be. My latest on the right's creation of an "anti-white" boogeyman.
MANHATTAN, NEW YORK, OCTOBER 1, 2018 Tucker Carlson is seen in the studio on the set of his show on FOX News in Manhattan, NY. After flicking out at CNN and MSNBC, Carlson now has the most successful show on Fox News. He also has a new book that serves as a viewer guide to his show, Ship of Fools that comes out this week. 10/1/2018 Photo by Jennifer S. Altman/For The Times
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Column: Republicans are ready to talk about racism. But only anti-white racism
Conservatives support "colorblind" laws because they keep white people in power.
11:22 AM · Aug 1, 2022

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-08-01/anti-white-racism-republican-affirmative-action

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Whereas the Republican Party once claimed it was “colorblind,” now it embraces race-conscious rhetoric. The era of Trump’s dog whistle has given way to Tucker Carlson’s explicit politics of white grievance.

It’s impossible to escape GOP propaganda about a war on white people.

Last month, former Trump aide Garrett Ziegler described the House Jan. 6 committee as a “Bolshevistic anti-white campaign.” Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich imagined a “cult of anti-white racism.”

The Fox News host ratcheted it up a notch last week by calling Democrats “openly and very aggressively anti-white” in a segment that complained about immigration and falsely conjured an open border.

These fantasies build on hysteria manufactured by right-wing grifters about “critical race theory,” maligned as “anti-white,” and assist the mainstreaming of white supremacist propaganda about immigrants “replacing” so-called “legacy Americans.”

In January, right-wing media consistently framed President Biden’s pledge to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court as “racist” against white people. After Carlson falsely told millions of viewers that white people don’t qualify for the COVID-19 vaccine, Trump echoed him at a rally. “If you’re white, you don’t get the vaccine,” he said. (In fact, white people are overrepresented in getting vaccinated.)

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