Trump Tulsa rally is quintessential #DyingOfWhiteness :
*Performativity of whiteness inversely related to working-class white wellbeing
*GOP demands human sacrifice from its supporters as a show of fielty
*...
*Performativity of whiteness inversely related to working-class white wellbeing
*GOP demands human sacrifice from its supporters as a show of fielty
*...
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*Many in the crowd whose lives on the line suffer bec of other GOP policies - no healthcare, etc
*Risk ripples outward to impact communities
*All to the benefit of a select few (who will almost certainly *not* be *in* the .crowd.)....
*Many in the crowd whose lives on the line suffer bec of other GOP policies - no healthcare, etc
*Risk ripples outward to impact communities
*All to the benefit of a select few (who will almost certainly *not* be *in* the .crowd.)....
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*There are probably many people who realize this -met so many good ppl when researching my book. But they can not say anything because compromise codes as treason.
*Thus risk, ultimately, is from being in the crowd (or the state that did not expand Medicaid, cut educat, etc)
*There are probably many people who realize this -met so many good ppl when researching my book. But they can not say anything because compromise codes as treason.
*Thus risk, ultimately, is from being in the crowd (or the state that did not expand Medicaid, cut educat, etc)
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*Ultimately we all suffer; and this version of whiteness becomes ever-more entrenched because it literally, literally becomes...existential. Ppl bet their lives on it.
*Ultimately we all suffer; and this version of whiteness becomes ever-more entrenched because it literally, literally becomes...existential. Ppl bet their lives on it.
5/final
*Thus my hope that we turn *as a nation* against what this rally is and represents, waivers and all. Beyond its obv content - it is a performance of toxic expendability.
*Thus my hope that we turn *as a nation* against what this rally is and represents, waivers and all. Beyond its obv content - it is a performance of toxic expendability.
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*And again show how systems of hierarchy and oppression have awful consequences even for many ppl they 'claim' to benefit. Ie, the wage of whiteness is--so often an empty paycheck, if not a death benefit.
So, so much better for everyone to find a better way forward.
*And again show how systems of hierarchy and oppression have awful consequences even for many ppl they 'claim' to benefit. Ie, the wage of whiteness is--so often an empty paycheck, if not a death benefit.
So, so much better for everyone to find a better way forward.
