https://yasha.substack.com/p/respectable-racism-only-backward?r=3d53c&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy
casual xenophobia towards Russians and Russia has become in liberal political and media circles.
As I’ve pointed out before, a lot of people think that racism comes from below — from the uneducated, from the “low-class.” But what this shows again is that racism comes from the very top of our media and political class — the very people who say they oppose Donald Trump and his bigotry.
America’s political elite helped create the Russian oligarchy — an oligarchy that they’re now trying to say comes from some sort of special barbaric gene that only Russians have
casual xenophobia towards Russians and Russia has become in liberal political and media circles.
As I’ve pointed out before, a lot of people think that racism comes from below — from the uneducated, from the “low-class.” But what this shows again is that racism comes from the very top of our media and political class — the very people who say they oppose Donald Trump and his bigotry.
America’s political elite helped create the Russian oligarchy — an oligarchy that they’re now trying to say comes from some sort of special barbaric gene that only Russians have
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