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    Default Trumpism Is ‘Identity Politics’ for White People

    Trying to scare white people is an effective political strategy, but it is also an effective ratings and traffic strategy. Trump’s ability to manipulate the media through provocation and controversy has been effective precisely because covering those provocations and controversies provides news outlets with the ears and eyeballs they crave. Trump considers the media “the enemy of the people” only when it successfully undermines his falsehoods; at all other times, it is a force multiplier, obeying his attempts to shift topics of conversation from substantive policy matters to racial scaremongering. The tenets of objectivity by which American journalists largely abide hold that reporters may not pass judgment on the morality of certain political tactics, only on their effectiveness. It’s a principle that unintentionally rewards immorality by turning questions of right and wrong into debates over whether a particular tactic will help win an election.

    In the closing weeks of the campaign, the president has promised a nonexistent tax cut to the middle class after two years in which unified Republican control of government produced only a windfall for the rich; he has spread falsehoods about a caravan of refugees traveling through Central America; he has invented wholesale a fiction about anti-immigrant riots in California to justify his policies; and his administration is considering revoking federal recognition of the existence of trans people. This is of a piece with the Trump administration’s general policy agenda, which has involved austerity for the working class and the poor and generosity to the wealthy or connected. Trump’s nativism, and the Republican Party’s traditional hostility to government intervention on behalf of the poor, have had a happier marriage than some might have expected.


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    White people are not a monolithic voting block.

    It's almost as though some black militants want us to be.

    They seem to think that a race war, with nifty niblick and banjofuck on the same side against them,
    is the best way to attain the reforms that are needed in our country.

    I'm not generalizing about people of color, because ethnicity isn't the only common bond between people,
    not the only barrier between them.

    I'm talking about specific black militants like guno who'd rather insult the entire Euro-American community with general statements
    than advocate for health care, workers' rights, and education along with white people advocating for those things as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NiftyNiblick View Post
    White people are not a monolithic voting block.

    It's almost as though some black militants want us to be.

    They seem to think that a race war, with nifty niblick and banjofuck on the same side against them,
    is the best way to attain the reforms that are needed in our country.

    I'm not generalizing about people of color, because ethnicity isn't the only common bond between people,
    not the only barrier between them.

    I'm talking about specific black militants like guno who'd rather insult the entire Euro-American community with general statements
    than advocate for health care, workers' rights, and education along with white people advocating for those things as well.
    so much for having me on ignore, you pasty face piss ant
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    Quote Originally Posted by guno View Post
    so much for having me on ignore, you pasty face piss ant
    I logged out to read your post, fucktard.

    You're a racist piece of shit and of no value to the progressive liberal causes whatsoever.

    Look at the excluded list on my started threads and see your name.

    Everybody on that list, including you, is also on my ignore list.

    That's enough discourse between us for a while.

    I'm logged in again. Enjoy being included with the trumpanzees.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NiftyNiblick View Post
    I logged out to read your post, fucktard.

    You're a racist piece of shit and of no value to the progressive liberal causes whatsoever.

    Look at the excluded list on my started threads and see your name.

    Everybody on that list, including you, is also on my ignore list.

    That's enough discourse between us for a while.

    I'm logged in again. Enjoy being included with the trumpanzees.
    Fuck you you ignorant piece of shit.
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