• superkret@feddit.org
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    15 days ago

    Ask Yourself if You’ve Earned The Right To Wallow: I’m a middle-aged, comfortable, straight white guy. I’m not going to take the brunt of what happens. I haven’t fucking earned it.

    This exact message is a big factor that drove young men to vote Trump.
    They kept being told by progressives that their own suffering isn’t valid.

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      14 days ago

      Which suffering are we talking about? It’s plenty valid to recognize low wages, inflation, poor healthcare, all of that. But I think here we’re talking about being deported, being physically threatened, raped, imprisoned, killed. As a white guy, I can say in my day to day those aren’t things I’m facing. (yet)