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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-02-11 11:06 AM
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12. "Many" is a poorly chosen word in this case, but there's an entire thread in GD:P
making the argument that the people of Wisconsin deserve what they get, along with individual posts scattered here and there expressing the same sentiment.

We have long had a history here at DU of people throwing shade on so-called red states, rural people, poor people, religious people, blue-collar people, people who drink Folgers, etc. I have a particular problem with that kind of thinking, partly because I come from some of those déclassée categories but mostly because such snobbery validates one of the Right's most effective anti-Left talking points, the one about how the Left holds the common people in contempt. It's been a staple of class war politics for a very long time, and we don't need to help prop it up.
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