Very happy to see someone bringing attention to this. My family is working class and we aren't white. Dog whistle politics.
Other insulting code words being used for rural white voters: "Hardworking Americans" "America's taxpayers"https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/839209788055629834 …
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so calling someone hardworking and acknowledging that they pay taxes is bad? Are you high?
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the way these phrases are used is to imply that other groups are neither of those things.
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well yes? They are descriptive terms. Tax payers pay tax. Hardworking are hard working.
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Yes, those terms exclude everyone else, and that is bad. Is there something wrong, however, with reaching out to poor whites?
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rural whites already get a disproportionate amount of tax $, & wield votes counting more than those of ppl in cities
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How about "real Americans"?
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I've been hearing Real Americans too
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Middle America, The Heartland, MidWest Values, I hate them all
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"regular people" and "ordinary Americans" are some more of those
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