ICE Killed A White Mother. Why Are Trump And Other White Men Cheering?

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4. This doesn't require an essay. It's ideological tribalism.

That's it. That's the mystery. This essay is an ideological narrative shaping exercise, but it exchanges clarity for pseudo-intellectual jargon.

We are an increasingly polarized society. Race can have a strong component of it. But as we've seen in Latino communities, race is not necessarily controlling. Ideology. Political identification. Religion. Sexuality. All of these exert various amounts of force in influencing identity.

That the Right has certain opinions about certain kinds of white women is not new. This author is behaving as if she's covering some kind of new ground in the wake of this incident. Except the construct she's explaining has existed as long as I've been an adult at least. The Right even has a term for it (that I will not repeat here).

One of the great mistakes the Left is making is seeing components such as race as having a near totality of identity determination. This is decreasingly the case. Political lines are becoming less homogenous. The older demographic orders are crumbling.

Just this past week, I just watched two things that bear this out.

1. Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang had the audacity to not like Jasmine Crockett for Senate. They had an opinion about a primary. They were met with waves of racism and homophobia. Their sexuality and Bowen's non-whiteness came into play for all the wrong reasons. It did not quiet the ideological reaction. And this then rippled out into talking about gay men and Asians in general in less than flattering terms. This came wholly from the Left on social media.

2. New York politicians, including AOC and Mayor Mamdani, condemned a protest supporting Hamas in a Jewish neighborhood. People went scorched earth on them on social media. Just look it up. It is absolutely unhinged behavior. The racism was wild. It was almost feral. Being a woman of color and the first Muslim mayor not only didn't mitigate the hatred, it became an opportunity to expand upon it.

We are becoming a nation where political and ideological allegiance will override all other considerations. The Right has very strong opinions about liberal white suburban women. Very strong opinions. And they've had them for a very long time. So the killing of Renee Good is not some paradigm shift. You're not going to persuade white women on the Right that some immunity this author thinks existed is suddenly vaporized. Because white women on the Right share that opinion of Renee Good. The minute she showed up to protest ICE, she signaled she was out of their club and their empathy for her evaporated.

That's how this works now. There are no people as such. Just the loyal and the traitorous. And race, sex, gender, and orientation are secondary to whether or not you have signaled sufficient group loyalty.

That's the mystery. That's our biggest problem electorally now. And the minute you see it, you start to see it everywhere. Even here, I'll be perusing a thread and see all kinds of sexism and racism that are totally fine as long as it's directed at "the correct target." I see that cop's Filipina wife coming in for some . . . commentary. And lemme tell you. As the partner of a Filipino with Filipino in-laws who I adore - I abhor this bullshit with my whole soul. It's on days like that where I start questioning my own identification with a group.

But the media bubble ecosystems promote this stuff, so it's not going away anytime soon. Which means our politics will be fucked for the foreseeable.

The Internet was a mistake.