CJackson wrote:thebuzzardman wrote:I'm not sure if they are specifically part of the "propaganda campaign", but their coverage of working class American's and the class divide it represents is real, and part of what fuels Trump supporters - not everything they believe is pure racism, but more importantly, they aren't the "only" class in America to have racism or ignorance, but that's what the mainstream media tells you.
It's always been ok to bust on poor whites, just right after it's always been ok in this country to sh*t on blacks. Our culture of "individual achievement" makes anything their failure and their failure alone, lets not look at any other causes. And both parties promote this view.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/13/liberal-media-bias-working-class-americansHmm. Foreign liberal newspaper writes article calling out American mainstream media liberal bias\class bias.
I don't have the time today to dissect this fully, but a few quick comments.
Yes, American media has traditionally been slanted by the people who run it. Many of them have pahk'd their cahs in Hahvad Yahd. But Bush was Skull & Bones so it cuts both ways in terms of privilege and power.
Regardless, most media outlets gave Trump all the free publicity in the world, not because of equal time egalitarianism, but because it generated eyeballs. Trump was very profitable for the media this election.
And yet regardless of the prior point, the media is also going to snap to attention when their whole livelihood and the rights of the press are threatened. Trump declared war on the press early on, so it is fair play that they report every dirty little nugget he poops out of his mouth. Trump is not just a bully, he is a fascist at direct odds with the principles of freedom of speech so the gloves came off a long time ago and that has more to do with it than blue bloods running CNN.
This article isn't about bias towards Trump, but more the fact that the media in general has less than 2 sh*ts to give to the poor, and poor whites in particular. Article acknowledges the racism of some of his supporters, just wants it known he has middle and upper class supporters and racist attitudes live there as well in same percentages.
It also says that elite conservatives don't really care about the lower classes (big shocker) and they, more than the lower classes, are responsible for the divisive rhetoric, policies etc.
Really just an article trying to be more balanced in regards to what motivates Trumps supporters. I mean, I get it, he has racists and whites who feel disenfranchised from their former existence, right or wrong. But, other than backlash of against having a negro in office for 8 years, plus the republican hijinks of each successive candidate having to be more "extreme" in his anti government stance, something must explain why this guy is pulling 40% of the vote and it can't be his locked up every bubba vote nationwide.
I like articles like this, that really try to understand things. I also tend to try and understand Trump's campaign as if I was trying to quell a counter insurgency - right or wrong, what is motivating these individuals and their loss of faith in the government.
Personal observations, as someone who grew up white working class, served in the military, grew up in NYC, so I have a spectrum of Facebook friends, from WAY conservative to WAY liberal, and everything in between. Post financial crises and the crash, I can tell how unified people WERE in their lack of trust and faith in the government. Of course, for the 4 year clown car/horse race, they've tended to coalesce around their self affirming candidates, even when, amusingly enough, those candidates betray their core values.
But I haven't forgotten that universal distrust. It's still there, but more buried, as people prefer to yell "Hillary! Squawk! Beghazi!" and "Trump!Racist!WhiteTrash!"
What a sh*t show.
