Will Andrew Yang’s meeting with fired SNL cast member Shane Gillis demand anything from white people? zakcheneyrice writes
Andrew Yang. Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images One of the traits Andrew Yang has exhibited most consistently in his 22 months as a presidential candidate is affability in the face of cataclysm, the ability to greet crisis with a cheerful grin.
Skepticism is warranted, to be sure, and has been expressed: Jenn Fang, creator of the Asian-American advocacy blog Reappropriate, told the New York Times on Tuesday, “[Yang is] trying to let Shane Gillis off the hook so he can cater to other voters that he needs to get to the White House.
Yang’s decision to meet with Gillis is inseparable from how politics routinely require candidates and elected officials to make peace with bigotry to appease white voters, regardless of their personal disposition. This is driven largely by concerns about political survival: The evidence that criticizing bigots is a winning issue during elections remains far less compelling than the evidence that actually being a bigot wins them — as the recent history of the Republican Party attests.
Expressing concern — let alone anger — on behalf of any racial group besides white people has long been politically perilous in the U.S., but Yang is well-equipped to navigate its pitfalls.
Grace toward wrongdoers is commendable, of course, and forgiveness should be exercised liberally as a general rule. But within a politics that incentivizes forgiving white voters their trespasses for fear of alienating them, to deploy it without requiring some kind of accountability amounts to simple exoneration. Perhaps this is Yang’s goal, given his avoidance of racial and partisan tension in the past.
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