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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I'm not avoiding racism at all. I've said at least ten times in the past two days alone, 33% - 40% of Trump voters are bigots of one type or another.
I'm saying that bigotry and economic anxiety are not given equal time. Everyone jumps on the bigotry thing because it's clickbait. It's offensive, it divides, it's red meat for both sides. It's emotional. Our lazy media loves it and focuses on it endlessly.
If we gave equal time to economic anxiety and bigotry, we'd actually better understand Trumpism.
But while this would provide a much better picture of what Trumpism involves, I'm still not sure it would be complete. The 800 lb. gorilla in Trumpism is the non-struggling economic voter who simply calculates that Trump is the better bet. That's a difficult animal to understand, and I suspect the press doesn't much like assessing those creatures because those people are post-politics. They aren't paying attention. They're simply making rational choices that they think will help themselves and their families. If people start thinking like that too much... if they become exhausted with politics and start ignoring it... well, what would our 24/7 news media, and the countless websites that follow politics all day long and run clickbait stories to sensationalize the mundane and create division do to attract eyeballs?
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You are a one-trick dumbass pony. You've settled on your number when it comes to racism and believe that the major issue when it comes to voting Trump is something else. We fucking get it.
But you need to stop acting like an enormous amount of energy hasn't been, isn't, and won't continue to be spent on why voters vote Trump, moved from Obama to vote Trump, vote against their economic interests to vote Trump, ignore their once-sacred moral imperatives to vote for a fucking porn star-fucking racist piece of shit. "They aren't paying attention." "If we gave equal time to economic anxiety..." Jesus fucking Christ. Where the fuck do you live that this shit hasn't been unpacked and studied from every fucking angle? Just because you don't agree with the studies that point out that race plays a much larger role than you're willing to allocate doesn't mean (i) it's not true or (ii) that everything else has been or is being ignored.
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