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SoCalDem

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26. and when the media covers white poor, they go out of their way to

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Mar 18, 2014, 02:26 AM

Mar 2014

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overweight smokers with multiple children...and of course a southern accent...and tattoos & piercings.

The "name of the game" is perception.

If they can present "the other" as someone you cannot identify with, you will be less likely to vote for things "those people" need.

I watched "Paycheck to Paycheck" tonight, and although I did feel sorry for the woman in the documentary, I also found myself cringing a bit when she spent $88 at a beauty parlor for a hair dye job, and with the callous way she treated a kitten.

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The Missing White Poor [View all] kpete Mar 2014 OP

They have nothing to complain about, they are privileged (nt) The Straight Story Mar 2014 #1

How dare those whites complain. bigwillq Mar 2014 #3

I think poor whites fall into a special category of being "non-white" all their own hedgehog Mar 2014 #4

Oh, I've just about heard it all here theHandpuppet Mar 2014 #19

+1 I've seen plenty of it here too. nt Live and Learn Mar 2014 #27

Did you miss this bit? Number23 Mar 2014 #6

more like doesn't want to learn JI7 Mar 2014 #7

Thank you. Says right there in the damn article that despite there being in sheer numbers Number23 Mar 2014 #12

Even worse, JoeyT Mar 2014 #20

Really wish I could rec your post Number23 Mar 2014 #22

Third choice: Non-poor whites refuse to accept that they could become poor themselves, DebJ Mar 2014 #31

No, saw that right away The Straight Story Mar 2014 #8

the media portrays poor blacks and hispanis as lazy, welfare queen, living off the govt types JI7 Mar 2014 #13

Sadly, that is true. No doubt. nt AverageJoe90 Mar 2014 #30

"The media recognizes that whites are privileged and are not truly poor or downtrodden....." What? AverageJoe90 Mar 2014 #28

people don't look at them and think "welfare queen" lazy living off the govt as they do JI7 Mar 2014 #9

Edit: Never Mind! AverageJoe90 Mar 2014 #25

Funny, I think of skinny, gap toothed white folks in the south Warpy Mar 2014 #2

I think of Appalachia. nt magical thyme Mar 2014 #5

I have a refrigerator MFM008 Mar 2014 #10

Not a word about privliage. Not a word about race............ wandy Mar 2014 #11

and some are just racist like that fake plumber who was on welfare JI7 Mar 2014 #14

Welfare ended in 1996 Fumesucker Mar 2014 #15

by welfare i meant any type of govt support, not one specific program JI7 Mar 2014 #16

Why use the name of a program that ended over 15 years ago then? Fumesucker Mar 2014 #17

welfare is used to describe something it's not just the name of something, JI7 Mar 2014 #18

Good stuff. AverageJoe90 Mar 2014 #29

Growing up poor and white in the south, I didn't realize we were "missing" Recursion Mar 2014 #21

Its pure dog whistle politics that have disappeared the White poor from America's psyche MrScorpio Mar 2014 #23

True. But the .1% don't even care about *white* poor people all that much.....nt AverageJoe90 Mar 2014 #24

and when the media covers white poor, they go out of their way to SoCalDem Mar 2014 #26