{"id":20278,"date":"2021-01-14T22:23:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T22:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=decde16c059e5499af6c76ee4d48ed4b"},"modified":"2021-01-14T22:23:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T22:23:11","slug":"2502-the-austerity-politics-of-white-supremacy-w-vanessa-williamson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/14\/2502-the-austerity-politics-of-white-supremacy-w-vanessa-williamson\/","title":{"rendered":"2502 – The Austerity Politics of White Supremacy w\/ Vanessa Williamson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sam hosts Vanessa Williamson (@V_Williamson<\/a>), a Brookings Institute fellow, to discuss her recent piece in Dissent Magazine, \"The Austerity Politics of White Supremacy<\/a>,\" on how the cult of the \"taxpayer\" functions as an effective veneer to push through racist attacks on democracy.<\/p>

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Sam hosts Vanessa Williamson (@V_Williamson<\/a>), a Brookings Institute fellow, to discuss her recent piece in Dissent Magazine, \"The Austerity Politics of White Supremacy<\/a>,\" on how the cult of the \"taxpayer\" functions as an effective veneer to push through racist attacks on democracy. In the days of Reconstruction, the Southern planter class found it difficult to get poor whites on their side without appealing to their material interests. By re-framing policy in terms of taxes, they got tax-burdened whites on board with a project of austerity which continues to this day.<\/p>

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