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TomCADem

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4. Looking at the Contemporary Propaganda You Can See How Racism...

Mon Dec 12, 2016, 10:45 PM

Dec 2016

...is being used by rich whites to convince poor whites to fight to defend slavery as an institution, which rich Southern whites used to undercut wages paid to poor whites.

Today, poor whites are convinced to fight for cuts to Medicare, Social Security, the Affordable Care Act, tax cuts to the rich, and oil pipelines that generate relatively few jobs.

In other words, the one thing Trump is selling is making America White again, and that promise of a scapegoat and the implicit racial superiority of that promise is priceless.

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In the 1800s, Rich Southern Whites Were Convincing Poor Non-Slave Owning Whites to Defend Slavery... [View all] TomCADem Dec 2016 OP

It's a little simpler than that for the average white southerner of modest means Warpy Dec 2016 #1

Still, it's always interesting to see how the arguments were spun out with such enough Dec 2016 #2

Wars are sold to populations with no stake in them in two ways Warpy Dec 2016 #3

Looking at the Contemporary Propaganda You Can See How Racism... TomCADem Dec 2016 #4

When they start to sell another war we can't win Warpy Dec 2016 #5

But War Is Very Effective as a Distraction... TomCADem Dec 2016 #6

Slavery had little to do with it for POOR whites Nevernose Dec 2016 #7