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by calibraxis 3500 days ago
There's a lot of truth to this. There's something in the culture about excluding poor whites from being accepted as an oppressed class. (Literature should soon come out on this.) They're called names. This inconsistency is ruthlessly exploited by the right wing.

The Clinton future was bleak for the working class (not just whites), let's admit it. She ran as the least worst, expecting that'd be enough. While Trump's climate change denial alone is enough to make him more dangerous, and he will probably ruin the white working class way more, there's a reason Clinton lost.

[Edit: not that I agree with everything this person says. White and male supremacy are obviously huge elements. Poor black women are far less privileged than poor white men. But one should listen & understand.]