I see what you did there.
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In 2016, J.D. Vance informally launched his political career with “Hillbilly Elegy,” a memoir that blames the relative poverty of Appalachian and Rust Belt populations on their own culture. Despite its reactionary premise, mainstream and liberal press outlets were so enamored by the book that they accidentally made Vance a senator.
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Stew Peters didn’t get the memo that Vance’s wife is acceptable because of imagined descent from Alexander the Great’s soldiers or whatever else you can conjure up to make her white enough.
As Hari Kunzru says, the book appealed to masochistic liberals who wanted to be told that welfare was useless and the prejudices of the “white working class” should be respected.
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Well, like Jindal and Haley, she’ll likely be brown when Republicans want to use her to show that he couldn’t possibly be racist because look who she’s married to, and pretty much an honorary, likely Christian, white person otherwise, as her brown-ness fades into supposed race-free (like “white”) insignificance.
It’s complicated. In a piece on the relative success of Asian Americans of Indian descent, the editors of n + 1 wrote a while ago,
We should be troubled by the success of desi politicians in the American South, home of the white-supremacist theocracy. (Both Jindal and Haley happen to be converts to Christianity.) The accession to power isn’t a sign of a Republican Party more hospitable to minorities; rather it’s a reflection of a minority for whom race is nothing but expediency. We will be ethnic when you want us to be, but we can slip right out of it when the blacks come to call. Hacks like Jindal and Haley have risen in the party through their brownness, which they disavow except when exploiting it. No one lives in a postracial America, but we desis have mostly enjoyed a postbrown existence that looks like one; “brown” solidarity has often amounted to desi professionals forming business associations to better exploit workers.
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Vance is apparently a big fan of this guy. That’s a little frightening.
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Defunct Economics Gun rights
Right-wing subjects always make the Wikipedia onebox glitch accurate.
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That picture just screams two things: 1. Look at me! I’m an INTELLECTUAL! 2. Punch the shit out of me, please.
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Sopii kuin nyrkki silmään.
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Also, based on this image from the article I posted above:
- “I will never be photographed in profile again!”
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Ecce homo superus.
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Yarvin disputes accusations of racism,[54] and in his essays, “Why I am not a White Nationalist” and “Why I am not an Anti-Semite,” he offered a somewhat sympathetic analysis of those ideologies before ultimately rejecting them.[5]
He has Jewish ancestry on his father’s side.
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That just makes him another kapo pushing racist pseudo-science.
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I missed your earlier comment.
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I’m so fucking scared - and I’m not even USian!
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Christ, what an asshole.
Oh, and David Lammy calls Vance a friend.
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As an aside, WTF sort of characterisation is
They share them? What, they take turns?
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David Lammy is a useless fascist shithead?
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“Lord Yarvin, only you could be so mold.”
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