Race,’ as the sociologist Alana Lentin writes, ‘weaves together ideas from biology, culture, nationalism and religion to make inferences about whole populations. It is first and foremost a technique for the management of human difference.’
It is, therefore unhelpful to condemn people’s ‘legitimate concerns’ over immigration at a time when apparently growing numbers of people in white-majority countries are voting for nationalist and far-right politicians.
Liberal intellectuals reframe such genuine concerns of indigenous populations as arguments for harmony and tolerance.‘ This is carried out at times with
‘unfeeling malice’ creating a disharmony of feeling the very thing they accuse
the 'deplorables' of.
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