[gruez]

> https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/09/10/hillary-c...

>... meaning people who were racist, sexist, homophobic or xenophobic

so not "Rural and working class white people", unless you think those attributes are fundamentally a part of being "Rural and working class white".

>https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/29/politics/wives-of-the-dep...

0 matches for "rural"

1 match for "working", but in the same context as "working class"

3 matches for "white", but they're all used in discussions about voting patterns, not in describing "deplorables"

>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/opinion/clin...

0 matches for "rural"

0 matches for "working"

1 match for "white", but it was "white house".

[rayiner]

> so not "Rural and working class white people", unless you think those attributes are fundamentally a part of being "Rural and working class white".

No, but the New York Times does, insofar as it’s constantly calling all Trump voters white supremacists. (Clinton was gracious, she called only “half” of Trump supporters “deplorables.”)

More to the point, whatever the personal moral shortcomings of rural white Trump voters, they don’t have any power. The media smoothly segues from talking about systemic racism to talking about the personal prejudices of individual Trump voters. But the people who control the systems are woke. The Black-white wealth gap results from folks on Wall Street who read Robin Di Angelo, not folks in Lincoln City, OR who don’t want her ideas taught in their elementary schools.

Wokeness is a white hedge fund manager putting his arm around a white Wal-Mart greeter and admitting that white people are the reason for persistent racial wealth gaps (but at least he’s “doing the work”).

[gruez]

>No, but the New York Times does, insofar as it’s constantly calling all Trump voters white supremacists

Source?

>More to the point, whatever the personal moral shortcomings of rural white Trump voters, they don’t have any power

They got trump eleceted, didn't they?

[rayiner]

Voting for someone is power every citizen has. That’s a very attenuated power that doesn’t give people meaningful power over other people.

You want to talk about racial wealth inequality? Rural white Trump voters don’t have any power over that, Wall Street and Silicon Valley do.

You want to talk about police in American cities shooting unarmed Black men? Trump supporters in rural Minnesota had no say over the Minneapolis police department that employed Derek Chauvin, or the mayor that supervised him.

You want to talk about lack of education and opportunities? Who has control over the schools in Wilmington, DE, where I used to live? Not Trump voters in rural Delaware. Who destroyed the port city’s economy, creating concentrated Black poverty downtown, by shipping Pennsylvania manufacturing jobs up the river over to China? It wasn’t rural white people.

Whatever the condemnable personal prejudices of these people, they have little power to actually hurt Black and brown people as a whole group.

[random314]

> Whatever the condemnable personal prejudices of these people, they have little power to actually hurt Black and brown people as a whole group.

Except, of course, putting Trump and Stephen Miller in power.