Oh good. I was wondering when that ol’ fashioned white racism was going to come out. The fact that you protect the WWC , but “inner city black poor need to change” says all anyone needs to know about you.

Well the white working class has been especially put upon, and may require extra attention, because they are still suffering from the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow.

Commenter builds strawman, is intent on burning it. Watch me continue to not give a fuck. Film at 11.

The horrifying thing about reading articles about the problems of the White Working Class is when you get the troubles of the white working class in the headline and then you read and find out that reporters are quietly following up with “approaching minorities.” Drug deaths among whites “approaching those of blacks…

Interesting that you should mention that

The people you are referring to as “most people” are just extremely online Clinton deadenders. Most people don’t do that. Most people think that the people who vote for a candidate are the ones who got that candidate elected because most people accept that that’s how democracy works.

Yup, it’s as if the gutting of the Voting Rights Act didn’t happen. There is a reason it isn’t brought up.

Notice how the Voting Rights Act hasn’t been brought up. It’s not a coincidence that it’s impact is being ignored.

Maybe the gutting of the Voting Rights Act had something to do with it.

LOL.

So you’re just gonna talk about Black voter turnout without discussing voter suppression aimed at Black people? Really?

Because, the language isn’t even coded here? Because, the clear intent of invoking the “White Working Class” instead of discussing the “Working Class” or the “Economically Disadvantaged” is drive a wedge further and help foster additional racist feelings by providing an “other”?

No, it’s the fault of all people who voted for Trump, who were disproportionately rich and white and male. It is not the fault of people who did not vote for Trump, who are disproportionately poor and non-white and non-male.

The pool of people who lean towards the Democrats or have even voted for them in the past but didn’t vote in 2016 is much, much larger than the pool of people who voted for Stein. Nice try, though!

The “white working class” doesn’t exist; framing it as such only benefits capitalists and white racists. The working class consists of everyone who has to sell their labor for a wage. Some of those people are white, yes, but to separate them out as being uniquely worthy of attention has everything to do with whiteness…

This. A marginally larger black turnout in MI, PA and WI and Hillary wins.

What do the White Working Class (PBUT) need that is unique from what the rest of the working class needs? In other words, what would you do to specifically get WWC votes (that won’t wind up fucking over everyone else?)

Because you can just say “working class” then.

This narrative highlights the overwhelming issue in this country: The need to divide and conquer. Racism has been a tool of the affluent to divide the middle and lower economic classes. Because if people began voting in their own interests, the wealth of the country would shift dramatically. Thus, the affluent…

Why I always try to differentiate between white people who are working class and The White Working Class (Peace Be Upon Them) as a shitty media obsession who must be catered to at all costs. They just mean racists that don’t live in major cities (see the profile the NYT did on the “working class” hospital chief of…