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kpete

(71,997 posts)
Sun Mar 13, 2016, 11:55 AM Mar 2016

Trump is, in a very real sense, presiding over a White Lives Matter movement.

Jelani Cobb distills Trump's movement succinctly for the New Yorker:

Polls http://now.tufts.edu/news-releases/whites-believe-they-are-victims-racism-more-o conducted during the Obama era have consistently shown that large pluralities of whites believe that they, not blacks, Latinos, or Asian-Americans, are the primary victims of racism in contemporary America. Donald Trump built his reputation as a real-estate developer, but he is primarily a salesman, and it did not take a great deal of market research to know that there was a pool of eager consumers for the product he’s been offering the public for the past eight months. His is not the conservatism of Ronald Reagan or Barry Goldwater, it’s the conservatism of another Queens-born mouthpiece of white grievance, Archie Bunker.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/donald-trump-chicago-and-the-lessons-of-1968?intcid=mod-latest
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Trump is, in a very real sense, presiding over a White Lives Matter movement. (Original Post) kpete Mar 2016 OP
I'm white. SamKnause Mar 2016 #1
Is it wrong to be bothered by this analogy? revbones Mar 2016 #2
It's more like a redneck people's lives matter movement Bestuserever Mar 2016 #3
I think you misquoted. The group is actually called, ChairmanAgnostic Mar 2016 #4

SamKnause

(13,108 posts)
1. I'm white.
Sun Mar 13, 2016, 12:04 PM
Mar 2016

I don't want Cheetos man Trump presiding over anything or

representing me on any matters.

I am sick of the divisiveness, the hate, and racists idiots.

He is a trust fund baby racist.

 

revbones

(3,660 posts)
2. Is it wrong to be bothered by this analogy?
Sun Mar 13, 2016, 12:20 PM
Mar 2016

I understand and applaud the Black Lives Matter movement.

Though, I'm not sure I appreciate the connotations of using "White Lives Matter" in this context. It's more than a little demeaning, and unnecessarily so to white people.

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