El Chisme

This whole episode highlights the current contradiction between capital and reactionary white folks (largely but not exclusively evangelicals, suburbanites, rural whites, etc). For 400 years now, the grand bargain capital made with whites folks is: we will let you feel superior and even give you material benefits above what other groups will be granted; largely splitting this up by race. In exchange, you give us your loyalty. And for centuries, this was a pretty stable arrangement, largely resolved by stealing more indigenous land and handing it off to these white folks. And once there was no more land to steal, in the first half of the 20th century at least capital was able to deliver some benefits to white folks to keep the bargain intact, mostly through a postwar economic surplus that white folks got to benefit disproportionately from, primarily through subsidized housing in the suburbs away from the people that the white folks were legally allowed to physically distance themselves from.

But since the dawn of the neoliberal period, capital has really started to backpedal on this arrangement. Because as the US has diversified and as the rate of profit has become harder to maintain, this arrangement became too expensive for capital to maintain. And this is why you see so much impotent white chud anger over this. For centuries, they’ve been the good little boys and girls and have been getting special treatment from capital. Now that capital wants to go back on the deal, they are getting big mad. But since they have no way to understand how it’s capitalism that’s caused this, their anger just gets fired off in every direction other than where it should actually be directed.