The media's coddling of racist white people is getting a little sickening.

[DanTex]

Seems everyone is coming out with the sob story about their cousin who lost his job at the factory and has since become an alcoholic and his neighborhood isn't the same as in the 50s and yeah maybe he's a little racist and doesn't like gay people, but really he's a good person and the problem is liberal elites making him feel bad and the fact that there aren't enough TV shows set in Peoria.

Well, boo-hoo. That's no excuse for voting for Trump. White people in the rust belt are hardly the only people who have had a tough time in this country.

Being disrespected by liberal elites is such the epitome of "white people problems." Mommy! Make make Ta-Nehisi Coates stop hurting my feelings! Give me a break. If you don't like "liberal elites", ignore them. Try being, say, Muslim for a day. You turn on the TV and the president elect is threatening to ban your whole religion from the country. But, no, that's OK, what really matters is people in cities don't respect rural whites enough.

Hate to ruin the white pity party, but the fact is, minority groups in the US have it much worse off on average than whites. Yeah, I know, Obama and Oprah. I'm talking averages. Yes, rural white people: you have white privilege too. I know, it doesn't solve all your problems. But I tell you what, it's much better to have white privilege and suffer the pain of having to hear the words "white privilege", than it is to not have white privilege and suffer from actual discrimination.

And by the way, the entire political system in the US gives hugely disproportionate power to rural whites. The senate representation per capita is heavily tilted towards rural white states. The house as well, especially with redistricting. And to cap it off, we have the electoral college.

I know, I know, we need some of these "I'm not racist but still..." types to vote for Dems in order to overcome the undemocratic nature of the electoral college. Fine. Hire some people who speak bigot that can communicate with them. But I'm not going to feel bad for any Trump voters.