I'm from Texas, and Your "Liberal Bubble" Argument is Ridiculous

I grew up a poor white kid in Texas, and your claim that the East Coast "lives in a bubble" is nonsense.

I need to rant because I'm fucking tired of this "bubble" thing. I doubt many folks are gonna read this because it's 3 am, but... (thread)

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The first thing you should know about me is that I grew up in white poverty in Central Texas. My father is a lifelong car mechanic...

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...my mother has worked minimum wage jobs all her life, and my stepfather was junior enlisted in the Army. None of them have...

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...a college degree. None of them really stressed the importance of education to me, either. We were dirt poor. We lived in trailer parks...

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...all over Central Texas and were on welfare. I have been around "blue collar" folks my whole life. Hell, "blue collar" is a step up...

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...from my childhood experience. My family is poor and white and uneducated. Prime Trump audience. And I'm here to tell you...

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...that these folks--my people--don't need your condescending conservative asses speaking for our "values" because...

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...the truth is that 1) you don't give a fuck about us and 2) we are not worthy of romanticizing.

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I am sick and fucking tired of impoverished white Americans being used as a political cudgel by rich Republicans against blacks...

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...against women, against Muslims, against Jews and LGBTQ folks and everyone else Republican politicians point to and say...

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..."See that? They're to blame for your struggle. You're hurting because of them." And the rhetorical device most often used for this...

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...is "the bubble" and every buzzword that goes with it: Hollywood, elitist, liberal, communist, professor, etc. etc. fucking etc.

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Republicans have gotten a shit ton of mileage from impoverished and "blue collar" white folks by claiming the people in power...

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...live in some "bubble" in Washington and are "out of touch" with real Americans. Tonight, , the daughter of a U.S. senator...

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...someone who has enjoyed extraordinary privilege in her life took it upon herself to claim that, somehow, Meryl Streep's speech is...

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...propagating some bullshit Hollywood-East Coast liberal "bubble" and that "real Americans" (she implied) this would vote for Trump...

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...as a backlash against elitism. Never-fucking-mind that Trump has gold-plated fixtures in every mansion he owns or that he got his...

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...start from his daddy's seed money or that he wouldn't piss on a poor white person if they were burning alive. Never mind all that...

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...because we're supposed to believe that Donald fucking Trump is "one of the regular folks". That he understands them. And you know what?

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They're right. Trump understands these people because he knows they're fucking morons. Yes, morons. These hicks and rednecks and...

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..."oh gawd, I'm just a good ole boy" dumb-fucking morons who couldn't differentiate between their ass and a hole in the ground...

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...who are so willfully fucking stupid that it's a ceaseless wonder they manage to remind themselves to breathe. Trump knows these people.

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He knows that he can say and do and promise whatever the fuck he wants as long as he validates their insecurities and gives them...

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...a leader of "strength" to follow, which means posturing like some silver-back gorilla at every perceived slight. He is the canvass...

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...upon which they project all their insecurities. These fucking morons who are afraid of blacks and empowered women and Latinos...

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...and receive welfare and Medicaid even while they rant against "government handouts". And you, , and all your...

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...conservative friends want us to believe that the "bubble" is liberals on both coasts, not these white Americans who insulate...

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...themselves into an enormous social echo chamber, repeating the same stupid "facts" and fears and conspiracy theories to each other...

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...and are buying into Trump only because he validates their racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, and all the rest of it. You want us...

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...you, , privileged white daughter of a U.S. senator who used her daddy's connections to get this far ahead, want us...

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...to "step outside the bubble" and enable this vicious hatred against our black friends, our Muslim and Jewish friends, our LGBTQ friends..

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...and all the women in our lives who, at this very moment, are scrambling to get IUDs because they may lose their right to privacy...

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...you want us to not act so "elitist" and validate this bullshit? Well, I'll you this much: there is no romance or gravitas to these people

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You know what you call a bigoted moronic white person in a blue collar job? You call them a fucking bigoted moron. Because they are. And...

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...speaking as someone who is from this background--among the impoverished whites of Central Texas--you sure as hell don't...

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...placate their violent hatred and give them any more encouragement to be hateful and violent. I seriously need to ask you this...

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...Do you have no honor, ? No integrity? Have you lost your fucking mind? Because from where I'm standing, you're either...

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...pandering to these hateful white assholes to gain political clout--and god forbid Twitter RTs--or you really do believe all this shit.

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If it's the former, you're a fucking disgusting person for exploiting this hatred for your own gain. If it's the latter, you're...

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...a fucking disgusting person for perpetuating this bullshit fallacy: using hatred--vicious, deadly hatred--under the claim that...

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...liberals--not education, not the 1%, not the criminal behavior of the Republican Party--but LIBERALS are to blame for poor white misery.

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There are white Americans who have never known a life other than living paycheck-to-paycheck. They don't have any friends of color.

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They believe women belong in the home. They think Islam is evil. They think Jews killed Jesus and will burn in hell. And you,

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...claim that I--a liberal on the East Coast who grew up a poor white kid in Central Texas--live in a bubble now and didn't back then?

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Shame on you, , and every Republican and journalist and pundit who makes the absurd fucking claim that the problem...

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...isn't the guy in the White House enabling white supremacism, who pledged to have a Muslim registry, who encourages violence...

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...but that liberals aren't being nice enough to vicious racists who would just as soon see me die for having sex with a black woman or...

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...for praying to Allah or escorting a friend to an abortion clinic. I say again, , have you lost your fucking mind?

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I do not live in a bubble. Meryl Streep does not live in a bubble. And the folks of the East Coast--in which every race, religion...

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...gender identity, sexuality, ethnicity, etc. swirl around each other on a daily basis, live amongst each other, fight and love and...

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...work and play with other and challenge each other to the point where when someone's an asshole, it isn't because of their identity...

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...it's because that individual is an asshole... none of us live in a bubble. So, if you are, indeed, just exploiting white rage...

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...to pad your Twitter account and sell books and slots on networks, I say with all sincerity: fuck you. Or if you really do believe this...

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...may I suggest you, , go live in these poor white areas and then tell me those aren't "bubbles". Until then, please...

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...keep your bullshit hot takes--borne out of your privileged, elitist, well-connected white existence--to yourself.

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