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In reply to the discussion: I've finally figured out normal white people. [View all]Squinch
(51,123 posts)what he is saying.
If a person voted for Trump, they necessarily had to be harboring either overt or unexamined racism and sexism.
Trump won handily among white voters. Over 70% of white people without college, somewhere between 50% and 65% of all other groups of white people. He only lost among college educated white women.
And then there is the point about the progressive split into two groups, one of which thinks "social justice issues" is of primary importance, and one of which thinks we need to pursue economic justice and hope social justice happens in the process.
"Social justice issues" is just another word for "civil rights." If you think that economic justice is going to bring about civil rights, you are being willfully ignorant and you aren't paying attention.
Nope. Tobin is right. Sad as that is.