I see this TN Coates essay is making the rounds on 'woke' internet: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/the-first-white-president-ta-nehisi-coates/537909/ …
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It's better than most SJ pieces in that it at least presents coherent arguments and historical examples. >
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But, basically, it's committed to damning working class white voters, and whites more generally as hopelessly bigoted. >
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It claims that poor white voters didn't vote substantially different from other white income groups, which may be true. >
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But Coates also attacks Sanders claims that such voters are reachable. And that's where I have huge problems with the article.
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I think the left has long pointed out that poor whites are torn between racism and class solidarity. >
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In the better days of the Left, the idea was to win as many over as possible by appealing to solidarity.
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Coates offers nothing here in terms of solutions, other than presumably to reject "whiteness". >
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That might appeal to a guilt-ridden subset of white elites, but I doubt trying to get white people to examine their soul will win elections.
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Replying to @iamcuriousblue @jaspergregory
He's a church lady in the temple of white guilt. That's his job. That's what he does.
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He's not writing for, or for the benefit of, black people. His audience *is* white elites. That's who's buying what he's selling.
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