Everyone should read this devastating article by @tanehisicoates https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/the-first-white-president-ta-nehisi-coates/537909/?utm_source=twb …
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Especially important, I think, is this paragraph about how Trump has shown the effectiveness of "whiteness as an overt political tactic."pic.twitter.com/ObgCZ0Iljs
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We would not have Charlottesville, we would not have the Alt-Right as it currently exists without Trump.
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Trump exposed as an illusion the idea that white supremacist politics is over.
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The article is pretty hopeless in that it doesn't describe any solutions to the problem. But I think a couple can be inferred.
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1. It is a mistake to think Democrats can win by placating the "white working class"—by deriding "political correctness," diversity, etc.
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2. Instead they should build an anti-racist coalition of most non-white voters and white allies. More Obama, less Clinton/Sanders.
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Replying to @ContraPoints @tanehisicoates
Are we still doing that whole Jews are white thing? Are we still doing that whole "POC didn't like Sanders" thing?
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well, the article mentions specific instances where Sanders has derided political correctness and said "people where I'm from aren't bigots"
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and these are politically strategic things to say, so maybe that's ok, but it does fit into a strategy of placating white voters
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