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Showing Original Post only (View all)"Their America is vanishing" Seriously NY Times? Are we supposed to have sympathy for their bigotry? [View all]
This anxiety narrative just wont end.
Why is NY Times still writing pity party pieces for these bigots?
Their America Is Vanishing. Like Trump, They Insist They Were Cheated and this dek The white majority is fading, the economy is changing and theres a pervasive sense of loss in districts where Republicans fought the outcome of the 2020 election.
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The content of the piece is familiar. White people feel anxiety about changes to the American national character. Those changes are rooted in demographics, economics, religion and culture. But the details of the story, which Im not bothering to recount, are not important compared to its broad contours, which are this: white people dont like change so theyre voting for the Republicans.
But change and loss and the economy as well as working class and middle American and non-college voter are words in the Times value-free vernacular, that others replicate, that obscures who is doing what to whom. For that, we must turn to the pull quotes, as we journalists call them. Here they are in order of appearance:
One: In Fort Bend County, Texas, things are changing.
Two: Mosques and Hindu temples draw thousands, farmland is giving way to suburbs and some Republicans feel their county is becoming more like majority-minority Houston.
SNIP-
The content of the piece is familiar. White people feel anxiety about changes to the American national character. Those changes are rooted in demographics, economics, religion and culture. But the details of the story, which Im not bothering to recount, are not important compared to its broad contours, which are this: white people dont like change so theyre voting for the Republicans.
But change and loss and the economy as well as working class and middle American and non-college voter are words in the Times value-free vernacular, that others replicate, that obscures who is doing what to whom. For that, we must turn to the pull quotes, as we journalists call them. Here they are in order of appearance:
One: In Fort Bend County, Texas, things are changing.
Two: Mosques and Hindu temples draw thousands, farmland is giving way to suburbs and some Republicans feel their county is becoming more like majority-minority Houston.
https://www.alternet.org/2022/10/liberal-democracys-enemy-is-white/
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"Their America is vanishing" Seriously NY Times? Are we supposed to have sympathy for their bigotry? [View all]
tulipsandroses
Oct 2022
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They should all be asked on the campaign trail if they believe democracy is the best form of governm
Walleye
Oct 2022
#22
Awhile back, I posted an article about money left unspent for retraining
tulipsandroses
Oct 2022
#28
The last few paragraphs of this article address the fundamental laziness of these people.....
Jade Fox
Oct 2022
#43
Hate, bigotry and death threats - none of this shit has any place in society in 2022.
Initech
Oct 2022
#9
Year Seven of the Cletus Safari, and still the same old shit from the paper of record
hatrack
Oct 2022
#15
Their America did not include Confederate flag...most of them are full of shit...just mad because
Demsrule86
Oct 2022
#34
Good article, doesn't blame Democrats for "ignoring" working class and Middle America.
betsuni
Oct 2022
#36
Every time someone says "economic anxiety," I think of my Trumpista neighbors...
Hekate
Oct 2022
#40