RE: White people assuming other white people like Trump
March 19, 2017 at 4:25 am
(This post was last modified: March 19, 2017 at 4:43 am by Regina.)
Editing....
"So, why is this occurring more often around the country? Is it a white entitlement philosophy? All because whites feel they were under attack and now they get to fight back, that is what I think is going on." (sorry quote system fucked up as I was typing, can a mod fix this for me to tag Sterben in? Please and thanks.)
Anyways...
Partly
Honestly it's a lot of things though. We get so hung up on trying to find just ONE explanation for everything and that's never the case.
I think people just wanted change this election, badly. I'm not in America, but the whole Western world still hasn't really fully recovered from the financial crisis that hit nearly 10 years ago, We're (understandably I think) more concerned about terror than ever before, and we have that loss in industry and jobs which is ongoing. I also genuinely buy the idea that The Dems have totally lost the white working class.
Trump was just the more charismatic candidate who appealed to people, he knows what to say to play into peoples' emotions and fears. I've used this example a few times but I think it's a good one, I saw quite a few fairly liberal-minded gay people fall into thinking Trump is good too. Although I saw through it personally, it's very easy to see why. He knew what to say after Orlando. While the general political Left were (typically, as fucking usual) floundering finding a billion and one different excuses to absolve Islam just to spare the feels of Muslims, Trump comes in and (fake I'm sure but whatever) shows solidarity with gays and pledges to protect LGBT people. That's enough to impress some people.
I'm surprised more people don't see the transparency of it though. This is what politicians do, all of them, Hillary was as bad. When it comes to their election cycle they'll go back on whatever they've said over the years and suddenly say anything to appeal to a potential voter base they wouldn't normally have. Trump did the same raking in working class whites of the Flyover States, promising jobs.
So no, although it is certainly part of it, I don't think ALL of Trump's support comes from white people losing sleep at night thinking "ugh those brown people coming to fuck up muh country!". It's such a massive oversimplification for people to just say "whitelash! racist whites voted Trump!"
"So, why is this occurring more often around the country? Is it a white entitlement philosophy? All because whites feel they were under attack and now they get to fight back, that is what I think is going on." (sorry quote system fucked up as I was typing, can a mod fix this for me to tag Sterben in? Please and thanks.)
Anyways...
Partly
Honestly it's a lot of things though. We get so hung up on trying to find just ONE explanation for everything and that's never the case.
I think people just wanted change this election, badly. I'm not in America, but the whole Western world still hasn't really fully recovered from the financial crisis that hit nearly 10 years ago, We're (understandably I think) more concerned about terror than ever before, and we have that loss in industry and jobs which is ongoing. I also genuinely buy the idea that The Dems have totally lost the white working class.
Trump was just the more charismatic candidate who appealed to people, he knows what to say to play into peoples' emotions and fears. I've used this example a few times but I think it's a good one, I saw quite a few fairly liberal-minded gay people fall into thinking Trump is good too. Although I saw through it personally, it's very easy to see why. He knew what to say after Orlando. While the general political Left were (typically, as fucking usual) floundering finding a billion and one different excuses to absolve Islam just to spare the feels of Muslims, Trump comes in and (fake I'm sure but whatever) shows solidarity with gays and pledges to protect LGBT people. That's enough to impress some people.
I'm surprised more people don't see the transparency of it though. This is what politicians do, all of them, Hillary was as bad. When it comes to their election cycle they'll go back on whatever they've said over the years and suddenly say anything to appeal to a potential voter base they wouldn't normally have. Trump did the same raking in working class whites of the Flyover States, promising jobs.
So no, although it is certainly part of it, I don't think ALL of Trump's support comes from white people losing sleep at night thinking "ugh those brown people coming to fuck up muh country!". It's such a massive oversimplification for people to just say "whitelash! racist whites voted Trump!"
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
