"If I strain, I can imagine a situation in which people want X for reasons besides bigotry" is not the same as "People want X for reasons besides bigotry". It is a particularly insulting confidence game to pretend otherwise.
Jonathan PortesPeak Goodhart: literally the first citation in this is to Matt Goodwin's discredited "Great Replacement" fantasy. If you're trying to push your sanitised "non-racist" preference/ethnonationalism, perhaps don't start by linking to a far-right racist grifter? www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07...