2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Why draw a distinction between the working class and the white working class? [View all]Dems to Win
(2,161 posts)low level tellers had to commit fraud and create fake accounts in order to keep their jobs-- she walked away with over a hundred million dollars. So no, fighting sexism in the executive suites doesn't fight corporate power or help ordinary workers or help protect ordinary people who are customers of the bank. It just means that occasionally the person who scams huge money from the pockets of ordinary Americans will be female. And it didn't help those victimized by Wells Fargo one bit that the President and Attorney General who stood by and watched were black Americans.
Sure, a lot of white people voted for Democrats. Some are white people concerned about climate change or the minimum wage who voted Democrat in spite of being alienated by their racial rhetoric, like me.
Some people were alienated from both parties. 100,000 people in Michigan went to the polls, but left the presidential line blank. If half had voted for Hillary, she would have won the state.
A white person working for WalMart for $10 an hour is not privileged. A white person who lost their job, home, and pension in the 2008 crash is not privileged.
Liberal activists scream at poor whites about their white privilege, post pictures of black activists drinking white tears, write articles about the white entitlement of Bernie supporters, mock the concerns of white people as mere white people's problems, and if any white person complains about it, they point fingers and laugh at their white fragility. Now that we've lost, top to bottom, they are pointing at the whites who failed to vote for Democrats and crying 'racist, sexist, xenophobic bigots'. It would be hilarious if it weren't so tragic.