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Republicans have used identity politics for Years. We can point to the Southern Strategy if we want to stay modern as the start of the modern Republican party use of identity to frame their political agenda. That's why it's laughable to read posts talking about how Democrat identity politics is why we have trump. White grievance and white victimhood is why we have Trump.
“Aggrieved whiteness is a white identity politics aimed at maintaining white socio-political hegemony through challenging efforts to combat actual material racial inequality, while supporting heavily racialized investments in policing, prisons, and the military, and positing a narrative of antiwhite racial oppression loosely rooted in an assortment of racialized threats.”
This is why we have Trump. Not political correctness or Democrat identity politics. Because of various job losses, a portion of the white community has falsely believed they were left out and were losing. And the thing about this, is that they voted for the people who took their jobs and moved them into other countries.
Since 1980, American businesses have needlessly sent jobs out of this country. Everybody’s hero, Reagan, implemented a government business philosophy of laissez-faire economics that has cost the workers of this nation millions of jobs. “Unqualified” blacks, Asians, illegal immigrants from the southern border, or whoever else was blamed had nothing to do with taking jobs from the white working class. CEOS and corporate owners sent those jobs away. Their pockets got fat while race baiting white working-class citizens into a victim mentality.
And this is what created the rise of a demagogue like trump.
Aggrieved Whiteness: White Identity Politics and Modern American Racial Formation
Recent social psychological research, opinion polls, and political movements, such as the Tea Party and the candidacy and election of Donald Trump, have highlighted an increasingly widespread sentiment among white Americans that they are a structurally oppressed racial group. In spite of persistent socio-cultural and political economic structures of white supremacy, real racial inequalities that serve to privilege rather than oppress white people as a group, a politics of aggrieved whiteness has become increasingly prevalent.“Aggrieved whiteness is a white identity politics aimed at maintaining white socio-political hegemony through challenging efforts to combat actual material racial inequality, while supporting heavily racialized investments in policing, prisons, and the military, and positing a narrative of antiwhite racial oppression loosely rooted in an assortment of racialized threats.”
Aggrieved Whiteness: White Identity Politics and Modern American Racial Formation
Mike King offers a contextualized understanding of aggrieved whiteness and the challenges it poses to pursuits for genuine racial justice.
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This is why we have Trump. Not political correctness or Democrat identity politics. Because of various job losses, a portion of the white community has falsely believed they were left out and were losing. And the thing about this, is that they voted for the people who took their jobs and moved them into other countries.
Since 1980, American businesses have needlessly sent jobs out of this country. Everybody’s hero, Reagan, implemented a government business philosophy of laissez-faire economics that has cost the workers of this nation millions of jobs. “Unqualified” blacks, Asians, illegal immigrants from the southern border, or whoever else was blamed had nothing to do with taking jobs from the white working class. CEOS and corporate owners sent those jobs away. Their pockets got fat while race baiting white working-class citizens into a victim mentality.
And this is what created the rise of a demagogue like trump.