This study concerns discursive mobilisations of race and racism in the Swedish debate on equality data, in the case of a controversial statement made by a Swedish Green Party MP. In March 2019, female Muslim MP Leila Ali Elmi argued publicly for introducing equality data in Sweden, in opposition to prevailing colour-blind and antiracialist norms. Her statement was controversially formulated in terms of ‘registering’ people ‘by race’, leading to forceful criticism in the mainstream press and on social media, particularly on Twitter. In a material representing this criticism, we analyse discourse participants’ argumentative strategies, focusing on mobilisations of race and racism as acts of subject positioning, performative of a moral identity. Participants positioned themselves as morally righteous, liberal antiracists by virtue of their own antiracialism (Goldberg, 2009, The threat of race. Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, NJ) and colour-blindness (Bonilla-Silva, 2010, Racism without racists. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MA), while constructing equality data as a racist practice, and as a threat to a liberal order. They also constructed advocates of equality data, and specifically Ali Elmi herself, as being irrational race ideologues, to be morally condemned for espousing a return to racial thinking comparable to that of German Nazism or scientific racism. The findings point to the exceptional status and character of what we call a colour-blind antiracialism in Sweden, and further show how far ‘liberal arguments for illiberal ends’ can go in reinforcing a moral status quo and counteracting antiracist reform.

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作为不道德种族政治的平等数据：瑞典自由派、色盲和反种族主义者反对平等数据的案例研究

在瑞典绿党议员发表有争议的声明的情况下，这项研究涉及瑞典关于平等数据的辩论中种族和种族主义的话语动员。2019 年 3 月，女性穆斯林议员莱拉·阿里·埃尔米 (Leila Ali Elmi) 公开主张在瑞典引入平等数据，反对盛行的色盲和反种族主义规范。她的声明在“按种族”“登记”人的方面存在争议，导致主流媒体和社交媒体，特别是推特上的强烈批评。在代表这种批评的材料中，我们分析了话语参与者的论证策略，重点关注种族和种族主义的动员作为主体定位的行为，道德认同的表现。参与者将自己定位为道德正义的人，种族的威胁。Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, NJ）和色盲（Bonilla-Silva, 2010, Racism without racists . Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MA），同时将平等数据构建为种族主义实践，并作为对自由秩序的威胁。他们还构建了平等数据的倡导者，特别是 Ali Elmi 本人，因为她是非理性的种族理论家，因为支持类似于德国纳粹主义或科学种族主义的种族思想的回归而受到道德谴责。调查结果指出了瑞典所谓的色盲反种族主义的特殊地位和特征，并进一步表明“为非自由目的而进行的自由主义论点”在加强道德现状和抵制反种族主义改革方面可以走多远。