An insurrection of upper-middle class white people Will Bunch Newsletter

[Rjymeena]

https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/capitol-breach-trump-insurrection-impeachment-white-privilege-20210112.html

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That explains a lot. It explains why the Republican Party, arguably in a long downward moral spiral, lost its mind when America elected its first Black president in Barack Obama. It explains why so many people with the luxuries of a laptop and free time (things that actual poor folks have in short supply) look for conspiracies like QAnon to explain a society that no longer makes sense for them, or why so much of the hatred on the right is expended not at the CEOs who outsourced American jobs but at the cap-and-gown-wearing eggheads like journalists or scientists they find intellectually arrogant.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Regardless, lower class trash than tRump had been hoping for. White supremacists fear

tRump is reported to have been disappointed in the rioters because they looked "low class".

White supremacists fear democracy because it is the biggest threat to their privileges. Even the trash among them have more privileges than a black ivy league engineer on a city street.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. The (many) uneducated among trumpanzees are incapable of getting educated DESPITE white privilege.nt

[SharonClark]

3. Excellent read.

Loved the line about the NYTs searching for Ohio Trump voters in diners.