Today’s white nationalists prefer to address their target directly, and this is also what they like about Donald Trump. But today’s white nationalists seem less interested in the nation-state than in the nation as against the state (or at least, against “government”). Historically, in the United States, white people are the replacers, not the replaced. In order to address the violence of white (settler) nationalism, we need more than just virtuous tweets against white supremacists. But that desire is based in an impoverished understanding of power as the replacement and domination of others.

Source: New York Times August 28, 2017 07:18 UTC