White supremacy, the Trump moment, and the complicity of the political class: Anti-racist interrogations
The expression of White supremacy in the U.S. capitol is not an exception. It exists in continuity with the everyday work of the machinery of White supremacy. The White supremacist terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol is reflective of a larger infrastructure of White supremacy. It is in many ways both a mirror and a culmination of the ongoing work of powerful political and economic interests invested in keeping White supremacy alive and in perpetuating it. This infrastructure of White supremacy has been held up by the political class, enabled by it, and reproduced by it. It has been funded by the capitalist class, finding support in powerful economic forces. White supremacist messages have been and continue to be circulated in the mainstream media. Digital infrastructures of White supremacy are funded by powerful economic interests. In other words, the political class is complicit in the perpetuation of White supremacy, funded by powerful economic forces. I...