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Is Trump’s Use Of Identity Politics Strategic? |
2019-07-26 |
[FIVETHIRTYEIGHT] From suggesting on his first day as a presidential candidate back in 2015 that Mexico was intentionally sending "rapists" to America to calling last week for several liberal congresswomen of color to "go back" to their countries, President Trump has repeatedly used racial and at times racist language over the last four years. And in doing so he has tapped into what some scholars describe as white identity politics, attracting support from those wary of the growing population of Americans who are not white or Christian, as well as those who have negative views about groups of people like black people and Moslems. These moves have created an active debate among political observers about whether Trump is acting on his sincere beliefs, employing a political strategy or pursuing some combination of the two. It’s hard to know Trump’s motives (and likely it is some combo). But assuming that Trump’s rhetoric and policy approach on issues of race, religion, nationality and other forms of identity are at least in part a political strategy, is it a smart one? Does the way Trump use white identity politics help him and the GOP electorally, even if he at times veers into racism that members of his own party can’t defend? And are the Democrats (usually more establishment, centrist figures) who worry the party is playing into Trump’s hands when it defends members of Congress like Rep. Ilhan Omar ...Somali- AmericanDem representative from Minnesota. She is apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side... of Minnesota generally right, at least in terms of political strategy? He goes on (and on) about how racist Trump and his base are, but he doesn't address once that the Dems have openly become the anti-white party. Go to the Urban Dictionary and this is what you get: White people Someone who shoots up schools Guy#1: Did you hear about that school shooting Guy#2: It was probably the white people #red necks#jack asses#crackers#honkies#inbred by xlxExcelsiorxlx June 13, 2015 Netflix has a show called "Dear White People." MTV has a show called simply White People. I'm not sure anyone still watches MTV, but the blurb sez: What does it mean to be white? MTV's "White People" is a groundbreaking documentary on race that aims to answer that question from the viewpoint of young white people living in America today. That would seem to define whites as the "other." The author accepts that categorization as valid, throwing in for good measure white identity politics, attracting support from those wary of the growing population of Americans who are not white or Christian, as well as those who have negative views about groups of people like black people and Moslems Those wary of folks who aren't white or Christian would seem to include Conservative and Orthodox Jews, Cuban-Americans of any color, Asian-Americans, and Hindus, none of whom we seem to have any problem getting along with. Having negative opinions about blacks and Moslems as a group is dismissed as blind bigotry. I don't say racial prejudice, even though it's officially equated with bigotry, because our prejudices are based on empirical evidence, whereas bigotry is an assumption based on what the believer thinks should be. This is occasionally called "idealism." The SS were idealists, believing what they had been taught to believe. So were the Cheka and the NKVD. So were the Red Guards. So are adherents to the Islamic State. So is the IRGC. So are the Woke. Go to the Huffington Post and have a look at the White People topic. BLACK VOICES White Students Wear Cornrows And Bandanas As Costumes For High School ‘Thug Day’ POLITICS Alabama’s Abortion Bill Is Great News For White Supremacists ENTERTAINMENT Trevor Noah’s Hidden Oscars Joke About White People Is Sneaky Fun OPINION White Women: Stop Waiting For Black Women To Save You OPINION Powerful, Privileged White Men Will Not Win Forever BLACK VOICES Some White People Are Very Mad At Nike And Colin Kaepernick ...and so on and so on. Not being Woke (I'm Dozing), and relying on our senses, most of us have a dim view of black culture, while recognizing that all people who're black don't embrace it, and that of those who do, many don't embrace it in its entirety. I won't even touch on Moslems, except to note that the same applies to adherents of The Religion of Peace. Prejudice is a thin layer of expectation based on past experience that can be overcome by observation, sometimes minimal observation. The real world (not the other MTV show) is quite a bit more complicated than the wonderful world of the Huffington Post.
Tessa Thompson (who?) does not want to work with a ‘bunch of white people’ or men The actress wants to work on projects that are ‘inclusive’. Doesn't that... uhhh... exclude some of us? Wasn't I just discussing that sort of thing? If you don't buy tickets to whatever the wench is starring in you're a bigot, damn yer eyes! |
Posted by:Fred |
#7 Oh, I get it: Trump increases the GOP share of the Hispanic vote from 2012 to 2016, and has increased it further in the last three years - but this can only be due to "white identity politics." Right. These people at so full of $hit, if you gave them an enema they could fit in a shoebox. |
Posted by: Lex 2019-07-26 21:33 |
#6 Name one of the Seven Deadly Sins lefties don't glorify. Pardon me if I steal that. |
Posted by: CrazyFool 2019-07-26 15:40 |
#5 No one would know or care who Tessa Thompson is, if she hadn't appeared with Chris Hemsworth in some comic book movies. |
Posted by: charger 2019-07-26 13:15 |
#4 Even if this is what he was doing (and it's not) it would be more accurate to say it's reactive rather than strategic. |
Posted by: charger 2019-07-26 12:39 |
#3 "The current Pope should move to Avignon." Made me laugh, I'm not really sure why. |
Posted by: rjschwarz 2019-07-26 08:24 |
#2 It's not white people he's appealing to, it's what is left of Western Civilization and a very corrupted form of an old republic. Seems to appeal to many who are not 'white' (not to be confused with Asians who Harvard classifies as white because so many adopted the successful institutions and behaviors developed in Western Civilization). |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-07-26 07:03 |
#1 Echo that. Putin...Polonium... Pope...everything. |
Posted by: Dron66046 2019-07-26 06:07 |