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Can you expand a little bit on the white racial resentment and what you mean by it ?

by dmode 6y ago

__s 6y ago
He's referring to white trash voting republican against their self interest https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/31/trump-white-working-class-history-216200 https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/31/trump-whi... Or, with humor, from Dave Chappelle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH-wCe5oAv8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH-wCe5oAv8
- Fartag 6y ago
  news.ycombinator.com is another amazing echo chamber. Racism going one way, one-sided political views, forum sliding, dissenting posts flagged, down moderated, censored from view. One more Leftwing echo chamber to radicalize, brainwash and mislead. Training techno Marxists to destroy their own critical thinking, side always politically left, ridicule and embrace censorship of their enemies, and to bury awareness that their hungry, deathful ideology has historically killed 100 ~ 200+ million of their own people.
  - deleted 6y ago
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  - metalliqaz 6y ago
    heh, something set this guy off.... I wonder what it could be?
- free_rms 6y ago
  Maybe they just vote for the party that doesn't call them white trash?
  - __s 6y ago
    This might surprise you but I don't vote democrat
  - scarface74 6y ago
    I am definitely not White - but when Democrats say that the “white trash” only care about guns and the Bible, why wouldn’t they vote for Trump? You never win votes by insulting the people that you want to vote for you.
    - metalliqaz 6y ago
      Democrats don't say that. Unless you grant that Republicans say that "blacks are lazy and violent" because right-leaning Internet randos say it online. The presumptive Democrat candidate put out words of unity, compared to Trump's verbal shit splatter.
      - scarface74 6y ago
        Do you consider Obama an "internet Rando?" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/apr/14/barackobama.uselections2008 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/apr/14/barackobama.us... Obama was caught in an uncharacteristic moment of loose language. Referring to working-class voters in old industrial towns decimated by job losses, the presidential hopeful said: "They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
        dmode 6y ago
        Can you point to the phrase "white trash" in the statement above ? Trump, the defacto leader of Republican party, has said things that are 1000x worse
        scarface74 6y ago
        I said nothing about him calling them “white trash”. I was quoting the parent. I said that Democrats claimed that rural America only cares about “guns and the Bible”. A slight misquote from memory. But it wasn’t an “internet Rando” that expressed that sentiment like you claimed. Trump can afford to say “much worse” just like republicans in the past could afford to use the “Southern Strategy” and dog whistle to their constituents.
ratww 6y ago
The term was coined by Publius [1] in his blog. It's resentment towards black people due a belief of having *"been significantly deprived of various things because of minorities". Also, WaPo recently used one question from historical surveys by the ANES (American National Election Studies) to measure what they consider "white resentment", and there seems to be a large correlation between that and other political positions. [2] (Skip to the "Here’s how we did our research" part and the graph if you're not a fan of WaPo) - [1] https://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2008/08/my-one-and-only.html https://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2008/08/my-on... [2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/01/15/white-racial-resentment-has-been-gaining-political-power-for-decades/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/01/1...
pcbro141 6y ago
A non-trivial percentage of White Americans feel like African-Americans have already been made whole for the hundreds of years of wrongdoing done to them, and some even feel like Black people actually have more privilege/opportunity than White people in America and that America is now "reverse racist". Anecdotally, they tend to be poorer Whites who feel aggrieved that they haven't gotten the wealth they feel they deserve, but not always. Basically the type of people who think saying "Black Lives Matter" means you hate White people.

Can you expand a little bit on the white racial resentment and what you mean by it ?

by dmode 6y ago

Can you expand a little bit on the white racial resentment and what you mean by it ?

__s 6y ago

He's referring to white trash voting republican against their self interest https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/31/trump-white-working-class-history-216200 https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/31/trump-whi... Or, with humor, from Dave Chappelle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH-wCe5oAv8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH-wCe5oAv8

Fartag 6y ago
news.ycombinator.com is another amazing echo chamber. Racism going one way, one-sided political views, forum sliding, dissenting posts flagged, down moderated, censored from view. One more Leftwing echo chamber to radicalize, brainwash and mislead. Training techno Marxists to destroy their own critical thinking, side always politically left, ridicule and embrace censorship of their enemies, and to bury awareness that their hungry, deathful ideology has historically killed 100 ~ 200+ million of their own people.
- deleted 6y ago
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- metalliqaz 6y ago
  heh, something set this guy off.... I wonder what it could be?
free_rms 6y ago
Maybe they just vote for the party that doesn't call them white trash?
- __s 6y ago
  This might surprise you but I don't vote democrat
- scarface74 6y ago
  I am definitely not White - but when Democrats say that the “white trash” only care about guns and the Bible, why wouldn’t they vote for Trump? You never win votes by insulting the people that you want to vote for you.
  - metalliqaz 6y ago
    Democrats don't say that. Unless you grant that Republicans say that "blacks are lazy and violent" because right-leaning Internet randos say it online. The presumptive Democrat candidate put out words of unity, compared to Trump's verbal shit splatter.
    - scarface74 6y ago
      Do you consider Obama an "internet Rando?" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/apr/14/barackobama.uselections2008 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/apr/14/barackobama.us... Obama was caught in an uncharacteristic moment of loose language. Referring to working-class voters in old industrial towns decimated by job losses, the presidential hopeful said: "They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
      - dmode 6y ago
        Can you point to the phrase "white trash" in the statement above ? Trump, the defacto leader of Republican party, has said things that are 1000x worse
        scarface74 6y ago
        I said nothing about him calling them “white trash”. I was quoting the parent. I said that Democrats claimed that rural America only cares about “guns and the Bible”. A slight misquote from memory. But it wasn’t an “internet Rando” that expressed that sentiment like you claimed. Trump can afford to say “much worse” just like republicans in the past could afford to use the “Southern Strategy” and dog whistle to their constituents.

ratww 6y ago

The term was coined by Publius [1] in his blog. It's resentment towards black people due a belief of having *"been significantly deprived of various things because of minorities". Also, WaPo recently used one question from historical surveys by the ANES (American National Election Studies) to measure what they consider "white resentment", and there seems to be a large correlation between that and other political positions. [2] (Skip to the "Here’s how we did our research" part and the graph if you're not a fan of WaPo) - [1] https://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2008/08/my-one-and-only.html https://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2008/08/my-on... [2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/01/15/white-racial-resentment-has-been-gaining-political-power-for-decades/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/01/1...

pcbro141 6y ago

A non-trivial percentage of White Americans feel like African-Americans have already been made whole for the hundreds of years of wrongdoing done to them, and some even feel like Black people actually have more privilege/opportunity than White people in America and that America is now "reverse racist". Anecdotally, they tend to be poorer Whites who feel aggrieved that they haven't gotten the wealth they feel they deserve, but not always. Basically the type of people who think saying "Black Lives Matter" means you hate White people.