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> so traumatized by Obama What exactly did Obama do to traumatize you? Be not white?
by breadwinner 1y ago
> so traumatized by Obama
What exactly did Obama do to traumatize you? Be not white?
- esalman 1y agoTrue. Obama delivered after the depression caused by Iraq war and housing crash, if anything.
- trilbyglens 1y agoObama kicked the failing can of neoliberalism down the road. He could have very easily bailed out the American people directly but chose not to do that and as such I feel like he alienated liberal Americans as much as he did conservative ones.
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- watwut 1y agoTa-Nehisi article "Trump is the first white president" explains it well, imo.
- pabs3 1y agohttps://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/the-first-white-president-ta-nehisi-coates/537909/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/the-fir...
- krapp 1y agohttps://archive.is/YEbJZ https://archive.is/YEbJZ
- FeloniousHam 1y agoThat title is interesting. I've heard the corollary that the social justice/identity politics of the 2010s through Peak Woke is what awakened a "white" identity in the US. The MAGAs responded to the "sins of the fathers" narrative by accepting and celebrating their identity. Unintended consequences.
- ModernMech 1y agoPeople who fight against racism know full well that doing so incites the racists to action. Confronting them head-on is an intended consequence.
- causal 1y agoI suspect that a lot of people show genuine symptoms of trauma from the 24-hour news cycle telling them to be afraid. This person may not have been affected personally by Obama, but if they watched Fox News throughout his presidency they probably felt traumatized by the end of it. This "traumatizing media" effect certainly applies to the left, too, and I think social media is the common accelerant.