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Not true about white poverty. But one thing will happen if there is a collapse. A disconnect on this never ending racial accusations. Whether it continues or not will not matter. People will pay no attention to it as survival will be paramount for many more of them.This is not about wealth. A poor white can be just as racist as a rich one. And poor whites still do not face the things a black person or any other person of color faces. From my experience poor whites are more likely to exhibit white fragility than one who aren't.
quite right. Blaming them for the state of things when they got no benefit from it should piss them off.
The thing that should have happened is we should have raised minorities up to the level of the white working class, not pushed the white working class down.
True, but poor whites have got the benefit of things like not being harrassed by police or assumed to be on welfare, not wanting to work etc. They see the positive image of themselves to the extent that they default person they see as a true American is white. This is what spoken about when we talk about white privilege, not financial stuff or wealth. The simple fact they can vote for a president without questioning where he was born, or demanding to see his birth certificate is a privilege poor whites have that we have not.
Poor whites can get a job and there is no discussion of whether they were qualified to get that job or were they hired because of affirmative action. Poor whites can work in a crew of poor whites and never consider that the fact everyone is white is based on race and not qualifications, but if 2-3 blacks are working with them those same poor whites start talking about quotas.
These are the things that are referred to when people talk about white privilege. So poor whites are not immune from such privilege and it is white race baiters who have conflated the meaning of white privilege to mean wealth or income.
I'm not saying that's what you are doing joe, I am just explaining how white privilege is seen by those like me.
BS if it isn't. Poor whites voted for trump knowing he didn't give a flying fuck about them. But he was going to make certain those brown people were not going to come in here and he was going to restore America to its proper white owners. And that's why right now no matter how many times he fucks up, you stick with him. Because he's white and he won't let those "urban libs" get control.