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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Great article that (among other things) outlines how the modern GOP has followed through on the reactionary project that 1960s pro-segregationists launched.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social

The "reactionary colorblindess" of the right-wing justices has reached its logical conclusion in finding that it is racist NOT to let Louisiana—and any other state for that matter—discriminate on the basis of race in voting. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Conservatives have taken the idea that any racial remediation policy is racism against white people, and used it as a justificatory logic to dismantle so many policy areas - voting rights, science, environment, climate, higher education. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Redefining Discrimination: Dismantling Environmental Protections through the Logic of Reactionary Colorblindness

Ian Carrillo and Annabel Ipsen

Abstract - The authors examine the unique role that racism plays in guiding and structuring anti-environmental ideas and behaviors. They focus on the influence of reactionary colorblindness, which is a legal strategy that promotes race-neutral individuality and activates white resentment in seeking to reverse policies for racial equality. The authors ask, In what ways do anti-environmental policies harness, replicate, and repurpose the logic of reactionary colorblindness? They conduct a qualitative content analysis of a sample of the second Trump administration’s executive orders (EOs). In these EOs, the authors find that the administration draws on reactionary colorblindness as a tool to redefine discrimination and undermine environmental protection in three main ways: (1) the EOs justify eliminating environmental justice initiatives by claiming they confer group-based racial advantages that are antithetical to colorblind individuality; (2) the EOs label diversity, equity, and inclusion, environmental justice, and climate change programs as “forced discrimination” to rationalize policy dismantling; and (3) the EOs adopt a stance of ignorance toward environmental and climate science, thereby rejecting the rationale underlying policies that promote environmental and climate justice. The authors extend debates in environmental sociology and the sociology of race and ethnicity by analyzing how colorblindness and the racism of omission work in service of anti-environmentalism.

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Julie Hotard Ph.D., writer, effects of disinfo on social systems @upine.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This did not have to happen. RghtWng media/social media made this--as well as all the other authoritarian, racist, anti-science, anti-education moves of SCOTUS & the T admin--inevitable. Turn on Fox, Sinclair, Right Wing radio, read RWng social media. It's very racist & repeated propaganda works.

Julie Hotard Ph.D., writer, effects of disinfo on social systems@upine.bsky.social

Most media & social media consumed in the U.S. are Right Wing. Sinclair alone covers 40% of households. RW media keep repeating pretty lies about T/GOP & ugly lies about Dem/minorities til the lies wear a groove into ppl's brains. upine.medium.com/the-vast-rea...

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The Vast Reach of Right Wing Disinformation

In one of my previous essays, I explained how very much in denial most Americans are about the extent to which our nation is immersed in…

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MtcRace @mtcrace.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Why do I still feel like I‘ll wake up from this nightmare?

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My Aim Is True @espritaime.blacksky.app · 30/04/2026

This has always the area of policy where conservative and liberal whites reach common ground.

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broekn.bsky.social @broekn.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Conservatives are the bottomless greedy 1% & illiterates for whom life is unfairly confusing - illiterates are half the country & they are angry & thrive on hate & who can blame them READ to your kids, use your library & demand strong literacy from your schools Boycott Amazon, Zuckerberg, Tesla

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

When policies and laws are debated on semantics and abstracted from real world outcomes this is what you get.

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dmh @hinebd.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

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