I'm not sure progressives, as bubble-ensconced and embedded in social and professional networks that reward over-the-top proclamations as we are, understand how silly we look online to everyone else when we say stuff that makes no sense.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/11/white-women-2018-midterms/575437/ …
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2/ If you hang out with cool lefty journalists in Brooklyn, everyone will nod and amen as you make sweeping generalizations that a) wouldn't fly in ANY other context and b) obscure FAR more than they reveal. This isn't real analysis or journalism. It's performance.
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3/ Fav part of the article is when a Twitter activist simply proclaims that actually, it's rich white Ivy-League types, not poorer and less-educated whites, who support Trump/the GOP. This is EXACTLY backwards. Among whites college graduation predicted Clinton support hugely.pic.twitter.com/SQJJkZsELb
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4/ If I were really cynical I'd say there's a business model at stake here -- one that relies on making progressive women feel shitty and like they're the problem. Non-college women aren't the market for privilege/IAT/etc. workshops. There's a level of scammyness here.
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