The Right Is Trying to Make the N-Word OK Again
Briefly

The article critiques conservatives for their desire not just for dominance, but for the ability to abuse Black individuals openly. It highlights recent events, such as a white woman's public use of a racial slur against a Black child, showcasing how such behaviors are rewarded rather than punished. The author argues that this trend reveals the deeper grievance within conservative movements, as they increasingly abandon respectability in favor of asserting white supremacy and humiliation of Black people without consequences.
Earlier this month, Hendrix called a 5-year-old Black boy a "nigger" on a Minnesota playground. She then repeated the slur while admitting to using it when a bystander began filming.
Hendrix adopted a pose of victimhood, asking the public for money, and raised nearly $800,000... she claimed in the video the boy was rifling through her child's diaper bag with the intent to steal.
Hendrix declared in her fundraiser that she had been doxxed, though the only evidence for this remains the word of Hendrix herself, a woman whose outsized character flaws include screaming racist slurs in children's faces.
Conservatives are shedding old pretenses of respectability and civility, making clear how much their identity depends on... the right to put others "in their place."
Read at The Nation
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