The left's oppression narrative makes the poorest blacks the most sacred and valued of all. But this same narrative won't consider that oppressive forces operate against white people, so "trailer park" whites are ignored. Poor blacks are victims. Poor whites deserve their status. https://t.co/VoDhpX2Q5M

— Monitoring Bias (@monitoringbias) February 28, 2023

In the left's shifting theological system, poor blacks have always been saintly, but poor whites are now seen as tainted by the original sin of racism, and their path to redemption has become unclear.

— Monitoring Bias (@monitoringbias) February 28, 2023

To explain their position. Whiteness has power inherently, lift the disadvantaged Caucasian, give him a makeover, connections, some ed and he can easily become a powerful oppressor. The same cannot happen at the same rate with poor blacks. The question becomes if true.

— A T Wilkinson (@atwilkinson_) February 28, 2023

I agree. But, if a lot of the air time given to problems on campus were shifted to problems lower on the economic ladder, it would do much good for blacks and whites.

— John Stewart (@Mustard35389585) February 28, 2023

I grew up as trailer trash with a single mom. I put myself through college and work in tech. I get a bit angry when people say I'm privileged because I'm white, like we can't be born in poverty too. Especially from people who never had to live in a car.

— Shaun Thomas (@BonesMoses) March 1, 2023

Identity politics fights against hate, but it also preaches hate to signal virtue. Progressives herd people into identity groups to control natural competition. But with individual identities stoked, groups fracture creating the very danger progressives sought to ameliorate.

— Clayton (@ClayDesert) February 28, 2023

It's also a demographic that culture considers acceptable to mock, deride, and stereotype.

— Teslavangelist (@teslavangelist) March 1, 2023

Oprah, Lemon and Kanye will get reparations somehow :-)

— Father NLAW (@Not2FarGoNe) February 28, 2023

The larger point is we no longer view individuals as captains of their fate. Instead, they are “bodies” at the mercy of outside forces. On the left, black bodies; and on the right, the mythical “working class.”

— Peter Crawford (@Pcrawjr) February 28, 2023

Ignored..?

They're the but of every joke upper middle class progressives write to make themselves chuckle.

They're actively portrayed as evil, incestuous amoral entities at all times.

Its shameful. I've walked in Appalachian territory.
Nicer people, than new york...

— Tyrone on the Throne (@Headgrchange) February 28, 2023

The more I read, the more I realize how pointless winning arguments like this is

These people want racism as a World View

If one switches their mind there, everything else resolves

They want that bc they want to do good - and good is unfortunately defined as helping 1 race now

— River Gandour (@rivergandour) February 28, 2023

Actually, the "black woman" is their sacred cow. Putting black men on that pedestal would be more "problematic."

— Michael Brandow (@muttsareus) March 1, 2023

Does anyone still talk about "the achievement gap" or is that discourse entirely dead at this point?

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 6, 2023