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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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