2016 Postmortem

JCanete

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8. Yeah, media loves this. People here who do think we need to hammer a stronger message about

Tue Nov 29, 2016, 06:07 PM

Nov 2016

dealing with economic inequality, as I do, will hopefully reject any messaging that our mistake was speaking about social justice. As you say, economic inequality absolutely hurts minorities more than whites who, even in the poor and middle class, experience a higher level of privilege and even security.

We should definitely not let the media frame our issues for us. This either/or they are imagining, and abdication of any personal responsibility for Trump's election by slyly blaming minority issues is just damn convenient for them. Its not like they are actually examining economic inequality either. They're just talking about jobs in as ambiguous a fashion as Trump himself did. No surprise that with that kind of reporting we got him for Prez.

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The media's coddling of racist white people is getting a little sickening. [View all] DanTex Nov 2016 OP

let me say handmade34 Nov 2016 #1

1 n/t okieinpain Nov 2016 #6

When you've lived a life of privilege, equality feels like oppression. stopbush Nov 2016 #9

Wow. That's a great saying. Going to borrow this, if that's that's ok... AgadorSparticus Nov 2016 #11

Not original to me, so borrow away! stopbush Nov 2016 #13

Funny, locally, I saw the opposite The Genealogist Nov 2016 #10

1 n/t okieinpain Nov 2016 #2

"White people in the rust belt are hardly the only people who have had a tough time" lumberjack_jeff Nov 2016 #3

Good point. (nt) PotatoChip Nov 2016 #7

Yeah. Why do the white working class reject it? kcr Nov 2016 #14

gerrymandering is all about race KT2000 Nov 2016 #4

I'm all for the media reminding people that Trump was an outspoken birther. They should have done it think Nov 2016 #5

Yeah, media loves this. People here who do think we need to hammer a stronger message about JCanete Nov 2016 #8

Frankly, while agreeing with you, I have to add... Wounded Bear Nov 2016 #12

lol..."hire some people who speak bigot " uponit7771 Nov 2016 #15

These RWNJs are the same ones who whine about the "liberal media bias" meow2u3 Nov 2016 #16

IOWA had 2% unemployed and yet voted for drumph BSdetect Nov 2016 #17

Well said. Garrett78 Nov 2016 #18