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Raider
@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social

Why are white rural voters a threat to democracy? "White Rural Rage" by Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman answers that question.

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the_lion_of_anacostia 🦁
@digitalscorpyun.bsky.social

White rural. White conservative. White Nationalist. White this, white that. Why is the conversation framed around the anger of a particular demographic rather than the historical structure of white supremacy—and where is the Black scholarship that established so much of this intellectual groundwork?

the_lion_of_anacostia 🦁
@digitalscorpyun.bsky.social

Joe Scarborough said he rarely heard racist talk growing up in the Deep South. That's a remarkable measure of racial reality: what a white boy happened to hear. Black Americans were living under the consequences of white supremacy, whether Joe witnessed them or not.

the_lion_of_anacostia 🦁
@digitalscorpyun.bsky.social

Why are two white men being presented as authorities on a subject Black scholars have examined for generations? W.E.B. Du Bois analyzed the political power of whiteness in 1935. Carol Anderson published *White Rage* in 2016. Where is the acknowledgment of that intellectual groundwork?

the_lion_of_anacostia 🦁
@digitalscorpyun.bsky.social

Oregon prohibited slavery in 1843, then enacted a Black exclusion law in 1844. Its 1857 constitution prohibited slavery while excluding Black residents. This is why antislavery and racial equality cannot be treated as synonymous. The objective could be a state free of slavery & free of Black people.

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@micalk.bsky.social

moved to So OR from SoCal late 2019 and learned about this soon after. the lack of diversity here is wild. it portends a situation that i don’t think the racists have fully thought through. here’s the problem. how will anyone one take advantage of their white privilege when everyone is white?

RN Mayhem
@mayhem1994.bsky.social

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RN Mayhem@mayhem1994.bsky.social

Oregon banned slavery in 1843 but reinforced it in 1844 while also passing exclusion laws that barred Black settlers from living in the territory. The 1844 measures included a "lash law" requiring free Black people to leave within two to three years or face lashings

HADintheHOUSE
@hadinthehouse.bsky.social

I don’t care. MY rage is what I care about. Rage at my rights to bodily autonomy being stripped away, rage at my taxes funding the deaths of innocent children, rage at the crooks in our government who are making billions while we can’t afford housing and health care. MY FUCKING RAGE!!!!

Diane Fourny
@dfourny.bsky.social

Because they are totally powerless. Or they believe they are. And they know that nobody cares about their lives. It’s a despairing rage.

E.L. Schlitzwaters
@ikilledmyheroes.bsky.social

This guy is spot on in his assessment of rural whites. They’re pretty miserable ppl & many of them have vices. But he left out a big piece; these ppl are dumb af. Most only have a high school education or less. They’re blue collar- not scholars. They can be antisocial as well. & very low pop. of poc

jakelunsfordmusic.bsky.social
@jakelunsfordmusic.bsky.social

Third eye open people mind control every thought from the rest of us with telepathic magic. Voices in people’s heads? They are other humans on Earth who mind control the rest of us. Look your friends in the eyes. They’re bad at keeping their cover. #endoursuffering

Acid Rain
@acidrainstorm.bsky.social

rural white people are isolated and because of that so is their thought process, now you take a family that has been living on the same patch of land for several generations which are usually multi generational farmers and that isolated point of view isn't challenged and is allowed to fester

Acid Rain
@acidrainstorm.bsky.social

then you add the anger that the young son or daughter that took over the family business and is now in danger of losing it needs something to blame, and like any one of us, we turn to what we know, which in this case is usually multi generational racism and religious extremism, with absolutely zero

Acid Rain
@acidrainstorm.bsky.social

other ways you know to think other than whats been drilled into your head and bingo bango you got MAGA many people I know out here think they way they think because they literally do not know any other way to think exists and I wish I was kidding, I blame low education specifically reading levels