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Laura Pulido

The College Fix reports a U. Oregon professor to lecture on ‘surplus’ white nationalism and its ‘climate obstruction’. 

This coming Thursday, University of Oregon geography professor Laura Pulido will give a talk on her belief that so-called “surplus” white nationalism is behind current efforts to hinder progress on climate change.

According to the event description, Pulido will incorporate “three historical moments” — the Tea Party, Donald Trump’s presidency, and the “war on ‘wokeness’” — into the thesis.

For the professor, who according to her faculty page “works at the intersection of geography and critical ethnic studies, especially Chicanx Studies,” surplus white nationalism is defined as “the excessive energy and power of white nationalism that cannot be contained or selectively controlled [which] spills over onto seemingly unrelated areas with sometimes unanticipated consequence.”

Pulido (pictured) contends this racial component is part of the GOP’s climate obstruction — that its actions go beyond just doing the bidding of fossil fuel companies. Pulido’s lecture likely is related to her current work surrounding “hegemonic forms of racism and nationalism – especially around climate change and cultural memory.”

In 2019, Pulido and three other academics published the paper “Environmental Deregulation, Spectacular Racism, and White Nationalism in the Trump Era” which argues the 45th president’s “spectacular racism” obscured his (alleged) negative moves on the environment.
  
The very first page of the report states “A hallmark of the Trump era (defined as his campaign and presidency) is his use of transgressive racism, such as declaring Mexicans rapists and introducing a Muslim ban” — neither of which are true. (The latter gets referenced several times in the report.) . . . 

 Those AWFLs in Eugene. . .