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socialistexan

“It’s not fair to blame white people for Trump and Republican control”

agripinaafalls

I imagine those numbers don’t improve much with white people with college degrees?

socialistexan

Surprisingly better.

Mind you this is based off 2018 polling numbers, so how they say they will vote in 2018 (so they “shy Trump voter” won’t show up) not how they voted in 2016 when they were +3% for Trump (48-45).

agitatingskeleton

“college degree = better opinion of politics” this is so classist, shame on you

socialistexan

Yeah, that’s not what’s being said here, like, at all since the main focus is on race.

It is blaming white people for putting a proto-fascist in office, but go off I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

hickrights

You literally made this about class when you uploaded a graphic about SPECIFICALLY lower-class whites voting for Trump. If you wanted to go off about race, hold all fucking white people accountable. Upper-class whites are just as much to blame and have significantly more influence than any poor white would. This isn’t even beginning to consider the economic and political factors that led to the 2016 election. Like not even to try and justify the fact people elected a racist authoritarian for president, just to get the whole picture, do you even get why that happened? Do you get that the entire political system has been geared towards keeping every person who is not rich and white not only subservient but turned against one another so we can’t ever do shit about it? Do you get that in Appalachia, in my home, poor people, both white and not, have been persecuted, opressed, left to die, and been murdered by the upper class? That Appalachia specifically is in a crisis because of the coal industry and rich Democrats have told them that their suffering is worth nothing because there is no money here? Democrats and upper-class progressives abandoned poor white people a long time ago. You know that Appalachia has a big history in political action? Do you know the amount of labor history that was created here as an active resistance to oppression? Literally just last year one of the largest teachers strikes in US history were started in West Virginia. Yeah, a reviled red state. Gerrymandering and all sorts of other bureaucratic bullshit has levyed the system against us and it always has. Republicans don’t give a shit about poor people, but they lie, straight to their faces and say they do, and people believe it because what else are they going to do? Democrats are ashamed of them and would rather ignore them over anything else. What do you do when your fathers are dying of preventable illnesses and your brother is jobless and your child ODs? You vote for the guy that says he’ll help you. Does it justify the fact that we as white people allowed a racist into office? Obviously not, we all fucking know that. But the world isn’t black and white and the big bad boogeyman is not the poor white. Wealthy whites are to blame, and will continue to be for as long as they control the system. Education is a privilege, knowledge of the oppressive system is a privilege, knowing better than to hold the wrong people accountable is a privilege. I’m sick to fucking death of upperclass people pretending to understand the toll that poverty takes. This conversation is about class because you made it about class.

socialistexan

Dude, I’m literally a working class socialist. I make well below the average income. I’m just barely above living pay check to pay check. I’m one emergency from being homeless. Miss me with that “upper class” bullshit. Fuck off.

You’re whole post is literally stuff I talk about all the time on this blog??? Like all of this is some “no shit.”

My “surprisingly better” comment is literally because I was surprised college educated whites slightly leaned towards Democrats, because I usually don’t expect them to.

If this were about class, then working class and non-college people of color would vote as heavily towards Republicans as non-college whites, but they don’t.

It’s a race issue, not class, that’s literally the point.

Hell, here’s 2018’s exit polling that shows, again, it’s race that is the dividing line, not class which again was the fucking point of the post

I posted the other graphic because a mutual asked about college educated whites, because typically they’re not much better. I only had the split maps of college vs non-college because that’s all the source website, 538, had.

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

It’s a race issue, not class, that’s literally the point.