Evan Urquhart

Some further thoughts about understanding white economic anxiety as causing racist politics, rather than viewing them as separate. 1/

You can see this as structural. A response to adversity encouraged by the system encouraged bc it doesn't threaten actual power structures.

But, that doesn't negate the personal or psychological aspect, or the fact that the seed of racism has to have been there already. 3/

Individuals are responsible for their own bigotry, even if they're poor or in a dying rural town or feeling economically threatened. 4/

But, the thing I can't stop thinking, about Trump, is about the producers and executives who knew exactly who he was and put him on TV. 5/