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Trump isn't the problem, he's a symptom. (self.EnoughTrumpSpam)

-79-$hill が 投稿

The problem is, economically disadvantaged white men didn't have a voice.

The left told them they should shut up and enjoy their white privilege. But those men felt like the system that was supposedly built to keep them ahead never benefited them.

The right payed lip service to them, but ignored their problems, and even made them worse by cutting welfare.

Both Republican and Democrat policies have helped the wealthy more than the lower classes.

Mass immigration is indeed a net benefit to the economy, but it disproportionately benefits the elites. The lower classes are worse off because of it. Wages stagnate or fall because the labor pool grows dramatically, and they now have to compete with people who will do the same work for far less money.

Few, if any of them, can afford higher education. They can't just get better jobs, and if all them did wages for those jobs would fall too.

We cannot afford to dismiss them because they have white privilege or male privilege.

The left needs to listen to them. Help them and the people they compete with unionize. Or, yes, restrict immigration.

Both sides need to realize that what's good for wall street is not necessarily what's good for the people.

We need to listen before the disenfranchised white people decide the only way to get a voice is to exercise their second amendment rights.

Trump is a worthless demagogue who must be stopped, but we cannot afford to dismiss his supporters as racist simpletons.

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[–]epiphenominal 4ポイント5ポイント  (1子コメント)

Additionally I think we need more nuance in the way we talk about privilege. I have a friend that comes from a rich family in the Gambia, and knows the president an island nation. In terms of walking down the streets of New York who is more likely to get stopped and frisked I am absolutely more privileged. But my mom is a librarian and my dad is a social worker, neither of which have shit to offer in terms of nepotism. In that sense he is more privileged than me. White privilege doesn't automatically mean your life is great, and using it to ignore a class of the economically disadvantaged plays in perfectly to the narrative of the alt-right.

[–]-79-$hill[S] 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Exactly. Socioeconomic status has much more of an effect on a person than race or gender in the long term. Race and gender can cause day to day problems ranging from minor annoyances to life changing trauma, but even white males face discrimination if they look poor.

I used to be homeless, and nobody would give me the time of day unless my clothes were clean and my hair was groomed. Not to mention the constant police harassment.

[–]_VaginasAttack_ 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

I don't understand why so many people lack even a cursory understanding of white privilege. We're literally on the Internet. Right now. And yet people just go on just assuming what the term means without ever bothering to look it up.

And that ignorance allows those who perhaps don't like minorities very much to shape the narrative of what white privilege means.

The left doesn't tell people to shut up and enjoy their white privilege. That's just idiotic. That's the narrative people buy into because it's so much easier to be spoon fed than to grab up the spoon and feed yourself.

White privilege (or white skin privilege) is a term for societal privileges that benefit people identified as white in Western countries, beyond what is commonly experienced by non-white people under the same social, political, or economic circumstances.

Literally the first paragraph the white privilege Wiki page. White privilege ain't talkin about rich black people and poor white people. It's about how, all other things being equal, minorities still face hurdles because of their minority status that the majority do not face.

[–]-79-$hill[S] 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Right. I was grossly simplifying a certain narrative, that people feel that academia and politicians are too far disconnected from the day to day realities of their lives. There is a huge rural-urban divide.

White privilege is very real in urban areas, but is much much less of a factor in nearly homogeneous rural areas. Areas where most of the orange menace's base resides.

[–]_VaginasAttack_ 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

Shut up and enjoy your white privilege.

[–]-79-$hill[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I tried but apparently I can't afford the membership fees.