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...
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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...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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@cmclymer This is a great rant. Elites have been using fear of "other" to divide us and keep us fighting each other. Real enemy is elites. -
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@christoq homemade and we'll put on a fresh pot of coffeepic.twitter.com/UpjPbmwWpC
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@cmclymer Wow, this was pretty spot on for the most part - bound to be a little variation but can so relate. Grew up in BFE Utah, -
one of five kids. Born with multiple congenital anomalies. Open heart surgery in 1960 at 9 mos of age). We were poor too but at least Mom
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@AlvinsMom was educated & taught. Had a "leg up" over you in that sense. Even so, racial intolerance, religious intolerance, sexism, anger, -
@AlvinsMom gun-toting bullshit everywhere. University was my salvation. The bubble in hometown was unreal. Poverty, ppl doing what they cld -
@AlvinsMom just to get by. Clothes worn well beyond their usefulness, too small or worn out. Racism, esp at church, was de rigeur. Kids who -
@AlvinsMom aspired to do better often belittled as "daydreamers" or worse, "lazy" or malcontent. Political sin 2b anything but white -
conservative and, for women, 2b independent seen as near heresy. So, bubble? I live in CA now. Diff world and, as you said - we live among
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@AlvinsMom many diff types but, sadly, still bubbles here too. Nothing like Utah tho! Like you, am tired of excuses. But also tired of - さらに表示
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