White aggressive identity politics is maintained by nailing this implausibility. Its political agenda is to glorify national and racial purity and sell a guarantee of social status based on that racial purity, without making it so obvious that it turns off everyone apart from the most extreme ethno-nationalists. It is the only way it can achieve mainstream traction, to maintain deniability about fundamentally racist agendas. The goal, the sweet spot of this identity politics, is to achieve a state where a white person can believe that they are good, while also believing that discriminatory
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