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In reply to the discussion: Buttigieg calls out Democrats for playing 'identity politics' [View all]bloom
(11,635 posts)18. No, I don't see it that way (blaming the wealthy elite)
I've lived in small cities, small towns and rural areas, and I've seen the 'good old boys' network, etc.
Mayor Pete may not think he has benefitted from being a white male with professor parents - but I'm sure he has more than he knows.
I recognize that he wants sympathy for white men who have lost the manufacturing jobs that used to be plentiful - but if he doesn't recognize that blacks can still have it worse - then he is blind to problems he needs to wake up to.
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the trans woman is more likely to face unemployment and be discriminated from getting a job
JI7
May 2019
#3
isn't it mostly right wing white men who are passing all the anti woman bills across the country ?
JI7
May 2019
#4
The headline and opening paragraph seem to put an inflammatory spin on his remarks.
femmedem
May 2019
#5
Identity politics wasn't created by the groups affected. it was a forced response to
Kurt V.
May 2019
#8
He always gets it right. They're having a new documentary on MSNBC about radicalizing young people
pdsimdars
May 2019
#12
He's talking about a particular style that accentuates divisions rather than heals them.
marylandblue
May 2019
#15
Acknowledging that people face different oppressions that must be dismantled in different ways
WhiskeyGrinder
May 2019
#17
Pete's is the good Democratic Party message: that we have more uniting than dividing us.
ancianita
May 2019
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