RE: Trump won the white working-man vote..
November 18, 2016 at 6:51 pm
(This post was last modified: November 18, 2016 at 6:56 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
......there's a disturbing trend, developing, where purportedly non bigoted people keep saying exactly the same things the bigots keep saying.
Which, if we grant the generous reading, might mean something far worse than we previously thought. "Non-bigoted" people have been so effectively coopted by a certain narrative that they don't even realize that it's happened. That, despite not being bigots themselves, they talk and act (and, apparently....vote) like one. They field their questions, their objections, they refer to their problems as though they were legitimate issues.
Then, after this, they respond to our gape jawed amazement....with seemingly genuine bewilderment.
Maybe there;s something about coming from a "post racism" generation or area or household that makes it difficult for these people to identify it when it crosses or even falls into their orbits. Not familiar, and therefore unaware?
Which, if we grant the generous reading, might mean something far worse than we previously thought. "Non-bigoted" people have been so effectively coopted by a certain narrative that they don't even realize that it's happened. That, despite not being bigots themselves, they talk and act (and, apparently....vote) like one. They field their questions, their objections, they refer to their problems as though they were legitimate issues.
Then, after this, they respond to our gape jawed amazement....with seemingly genuine bewilderment.
Maybe there;s something about coming from a "post racism" generation or area or household that makes it difficult for these people to identify it when it crosses or even falls into their orbits. Not familiar, and therefore unaware?
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