Cold Racism

(...) a lot of energy has been spent against a certain figure of racism --embodied in the Front National -- and a certain idea that this racism is the expression of "white trash" ("petits blancs")and represents the backward layers of society.  A substantial part of that energy has been recuperated to build the legitimacy of a new form of racism: state racism and "Leftist" intellectual racism. It is perhaps time to reorient our thinking and struggle against a theory and practice of stigmatization, precarization, and exclusion which today constitutes a racism from above: a logic of the state and a passion of the intelligentsia."

 (Jacques Rancière  "Racism: A Passion from Above")