The Trump administration’s troop deployments to California are in defense of surging ICE raids against farm workers and immigrant communities across the state—a straightforward project of white supremacy meant to discipline the entire American labor force.
That’s kind of an insane piece, thanks for sending. It shifts from “Was the New Deal racist? No” to actually arguing that racism wasn’t the main driver of the New Deal, which is a different claim. The latter is obviously true—racism wasn’t the point of the New Deal—and yet the New Deal obviously was racist
Hey Van, there is a left counter-argument to the 'New Deal was racist' theory. This is from Catalyst, Jacobin's long-form essay journal: https://catalyst-journal.com/2024/06/race-and-the-new-deal
I'm not 100% convinced, but...well, now you know!
That’s kind of an insane piece, thanks for sending. It shifts from “Was the New Deal racist? No” to actually arguing that racism wasn’t the main driver of the New Deal, which is a different claim. The latter is obviously true—racism wasn’t the point of the New Deal—and yet the New Deal obviously was racist