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| The Unabashed Demonization Of Poor White Americans |
| 2024-03-05 |
| [WIRE] A lot of the discussion you’ll hear about "identity politics" focuses on how immoral and destructive it is, and for good reason. Judging people on the basis of characteristics they can’t control is wrong. Decent people understand that. But a lesser-known side effect of identity politics is that it leaves the people who believe in it — the daytime anchors of MSNBC, for example — completely bewildered by major political events. Identity politics makes its adherents significantly dumber; there’s no other way to put it. Take the election of Donald Trump in 2016, for example. This was eight years ago, and by now, most of us have a pretty good idea why it happened. Trump, unlike Hillary Clinton, did not tell coal miners that he was going to put them out of business. He didn’t describe half the country as "deplorable," or extol the virtues of free trade in towns where all the good jobs have moved overseas. Instead, Trump’s message — not his skin color, or his gender, or any other aspect of his identity — resonated with tens of millions of Americans. Whether you disagree with his message or not, that should be obvious. But somehow, it’s not obvious to MSNBC. As of this week, in the year 2024, they’re still very much unsure why Donald Trump won in 2016, and why he’s leading in every presidential poll today. Watch: |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #8 I think I'll just take my white privilege card and beat those underprivileged into submission. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2024-03-05 19:52 |
| #7 There are far more poor Whites than Blacks in this country. I don't see them looting and pillaging the local merchants. Don't tell me the crime is the result of poverty and disadvantages. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-03-05 14:38 |
| #6 Matches the reported central theme of the Vegetable-In-Chief State of the Union address: "NBC News: March 4, 2024, 3:00 AM PST By Peter Nicholas and Mike Memoli WASHINGTON — In his State of the Union speech this week, President Joe Biden will pose a question that he hopes will answer itself: Whose side are you on?" |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2024-03-05 14:12 |
| #5 OK. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-03-05 10:43 |
| #4 I see the 2 major current USA factions as whether they favor the continuation of the human race or the elimination of same. |
| Posted by: Gromble Dribble4342 2024-03-05 08:38 |
| #3 "Time to change your ways, you rayciss piece of sh*i bigot!" is not a good sales pitch. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-03-05 07:55 |
| #2 ...A friend of mine who worked as a strategic analyst used to say that the US is really now two nations - the 'A' country, which is the cities, and the 'B' country, which is everything else - especially the agricultural sector. And he would point out that most of the people in the B country were capable of survival without the A country...but without the B country, A's survival time would be measured in days. And reading about the sudden demonization of the white rural American, I'm beginning to wonder if the A country hasn't finally figured out that they eat and work at the sufferance of the B country. Mike |
| Posted by: MikeKozlowski 2024-03-05 07:39 |
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| Posted by: badanov 2024-03-05 07:04 |