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Trump and the dead end of conservative nationalism - Vox
I read this last night and thought it was an interesting article. It's clearly written from a 'liberal' perspective, but it really describes in clear terms the problem with "nationalism" in general and what amounts to in practice if not in theory 'white nationalism.'
The quote above by Amy Wax is part of a larger one in which she says what she's after is 'cultural' nationalism, and that race isn't relevant. The problem, as she points out in that quote, is that when you do that you favor whites and disfavor non-whites. So on the ground, in policy, in attitudes, 'cultural' nationalism looks pretty much identical to the white nationalism that no one wants to claim.
Anyway, anyone interested in the 'liberal' concerns with the 'nationalism' movement, either for them or against them, can read what I though was a pretty good summary of it here.
[T]the speakers ... overwhelmingly agreed that a central part of “national conservatism” involved opposing allegedly divisive cultural change wrought by mass immigration.
There’s an obvious tension in this project of building a conservatism that is simultaneously skeptical of cultural change caused by immigration and, somehow, inclusive of the largely nonwhite immigrants who are responsible for changing it. At times, it became too much to bear.
In a panel on immigration, University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax claimed that immigrants are too loud and responsible for an increase in “litter.” She explicitly advocated an immigration policy that would favor immigrants from Western countries over non-Western ones; “the position,” as she put it, “that our country will be better off with more whites and fewer nonwhites.” (She claims this is not racist because her problem with nonwhite immigrants is cultural rather than biological.)
I read this last night and thought it was an interesting article. It's clearly written from a 'liberal' perspective, but it really describes in clear terms the problem with "nationalism" in general and what amounts to in practice if not in theory 'white nationalism.'
The quote above by Amy Wax is part of a larger one in which she says what she's after is 'cultural' nationalism, and that race isn't relevant. The problem, as she points out in that quote, is that when you do that you favor whites and disfavor non-whites. So on the ground, in policy, in attitudes, 'cultural' nationalism looks pretty much identical to the white nationalism that no one wants to claim.
Anyway, anyone interested in the 'liberal' concerns with the 'nationalism' movement, either for them or against them, can read what I though was a pretty good summary of it here.