Thursday, June 23, 2016

On Angry People?

Last week, in a damning blog post titled "On Angry White People", Michelle Hinojosa makes one of the best arguments I've read regarding why the 'Bernie or Bust' movement essentially constitutes as [white] privilege. Although it is a declaration I have heard contended viciously, Michelle makes crystal clear that it is essentially dictionary privilege to disregard the major differences in any candidate's policies versus those of Donald Trump. Of course, white people are the only demographic Trump hasn't tried to deport or marginalize, so those to whom his policies are interchangeable with Clinton's, are quite literally in a privileged position.
Michelle buries this gem of an argument under several conflated arguments and partisan endorsements, unfortunately, and makes incriminating claims of a large group of people without citing any source, evidence, or even a corroborating anecdote. In one regrettable sentence she reduces Bernie supporters as moral equivalents to Trump's, declaring that both groups are but varying flavors in a banquet for people merely concerned with vindicating the wrongs they feel have been perpetrated to them, with nor regard to the welfare of the rest. After asserting that this homogeneous mass of white angry people seek to run away from their responsibility as "Bad Guys", she references without explanation, and to the readers bewilderment, their 'role in The Patriarchy'.
Although her arguments get entangled, and sometimes jump to different tracks in order to make the point, Michelle delivers a thought provoking piece, wrought with righteousness  and full of kindheartedness( and perhaps a bit of anger too!).

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