U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) has faced widespread criticism this week for refusing to condemn white nationalism as racist and for downplaying the ideology’s growing influence in right-wing politics.
The senator from Alabama is wrong, wrong, wrong. The definition of white nationalism is not a matter of opinion. White nationalism, the ideology that one race is inherently superior to others, that people of color should be segregated, subjected and relegated to second-class citizenship is racist, down to its rotten core.
“For the senator from Alabama to obscure the racist nature of White Nationalism is indeed very, very dangerous,” Schumer said.author of a study entitled “White Nationalism Revisited,”“Far from being ‘some people’s opinion,’ white nationalism has a very specific definition,” Gardiner said in an email to. “It refers to the idea that the United States is, was, and always should be a country for and dominated by white people.
White nationalism is “a social movement that seeks to capture institutions and determine policies in order to increase the white majority and expand its political power,” Gardiner went on. “At base, white nationalists believe that the U.S. as it exists today, in the post-Civil Rights era, is not racist enough.”
Though the number of white nationalists in the U.S. is small in terms of percentage of the population, “the movement has had an outsized influence on the MAGA coalition,” Gardiner said, referring to the political movement led by former President Donald Trump, which Tuberville
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