How fear of diversity has led to the ‘civil war’ of this election

[guno]

Voting against their interests


Fear of the “browning of America” has been the sub current running through the 2016 US presidential election. And that explains a lot of the vitriol, according to a panel in New York City Monday night hosted by actor and comedian Aasif Mandvi. It’s an idea that scares many white people.

This election’s “us vs. them” mentality is a result of the perfect storm of economic disparities, fear and ill-placed nostalgia for “better” days.

"What is happening to white America, we should be clear, is horrifying and it happened to communities of color and single women decades ago,” noted Ward. He says of course racial privilege still exists for white people, but poor whites have trouble seeing that through the lens of their own struggles.


How fear of diversity has led to the ‘civil war’ of this election

 

[Brynmr]

Fear of the “browning of America” has been the sub current running through the 2016 US presidential election.

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[Auld Phart]

Voting against their interests


Fear of the “browning of America” has been the sub current running through the 2016 US presidential election. And that explains a lot of the vitriol, according to a panel in New York City Monday night hosted by actor and comedian Aasif Mandvi. It’s an idea that scares many white people.

This election’s “us vs. them” mentality is a result of the perfect storm of economic disparities, fear and ill-placed nostalgia for “better” days.

"What is happening to white America, we should be clear, is horrifying and it happened to communities of color and single women decades ago,” noted Ward. He says of course racial privilege still exists for white people, but poor whites have trouble seeing that through the lens of their own struggles.


How fear of diversity has led to the ‘civil war’ of this election

Keeping BOTH of them out of the WH is in the best interest of America

 

[The Irish Ram]

Fear of France and Germany's woes coming here is what Americans will be voting against this election. Sorry to burst your little "whitey's are" skeered bubble. This election is us vs Globalism. We will be telling Soros and his Muslim quotas to go to hell.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

'This election’s “us vs. them” mentality is a result of the perfect storm of economic disparities, fear and ill-placed nostalgia for “better” days."

Exactly.

It’s a textbook example of conservative reactionaryism: fear of change, diversity, and dissent.

Particularly ridiculous is the notion that diversity and inclusion pose some sort of ‘threat’ to white Americans, when in fact nothing could be further from the truth.

And in an effort to ‘counter’ this imaginary ‘threat,’ the reactionary right seeks to disadvantage minorities through force of law, in violation of the Constitution.

 

[The Irish Ram]

^ either that, or we just don't want to become France and Germany, and Sweden, and Italy, and...
You have fear confused with common sense < which isn't one bit frightening and is 100% smart enough to learn from other's mistakes and not make the same ones.
You seem to want us to make the exact same mistake they did. Why is that?