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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVox - Trump's idea that jobs will solve racism is just wrong
This idea is not just pushed members of the right. Some members of the left have argued that progressives should ignore social justice causes as "identity politics," and focus on economic issues pointing, ironically enough, to Trump's campaign even though Trump relied heavily on white nationalist themes.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/16/16153616/trumps-idea-that-jobs-will-solve-racism-is-just-wrong
President Donald Trump has a theory about how to overcome Americas racial divides and no, it doesnt involve him clearly and forthrightly condemning the violent white supremacist rallies being carried out in his name by avowed racists and neo-Nazis. It involves jobs.
I really think jobs are going to have a big impact, he told reporters on Tuesday. If we continue to create jobs over a million substantially more than a million, and you see just the other day, the car companies come in with Foxconn, I think if we continue to create jobs at levels that I'm creating jobs, I think that's going to have a tremendous impact positive impact on race relations.
In the context of Trumps others remarks at that press conference which saw him empathizing with white nationalist rioters in Charlottesville, Virginia, and defending monuments to the Confederacy this might sound reasonable. Its not a totally implausible theory, that the country becomes more tolerant during economic booms and that white Americans become more racially prejudiced during recessions or stagnation.
But the evidence for the theory is mixed at best. In many cases, its hard to see much correlation between objective economic conditions and the status of race relations.
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Vox - Trump's idea that jobs will solve racism is just wrong (Original Post)
TomCADem
Aug 2017
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Bernie Sanders says Trump voters arent 'deplorable' in jab aimed at Clinton camp
TomCADem
Aug 2017
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lunasun
(21,646 posts)1. Beware Democratic Party on what bullshit you buy in to.
TomCADem
(17,390 posts)2. Bernie Sanders says Trump voters arent 'deplorable' in jab aimed at Clinton camp
There are some progressives who buy into Trump's central premise that all you have to do is improve the economy, and racism and sexism go away.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/01/bernie-sanders-trump-voters-not-deplorable-clinton-warren
Bernie Sanders has defended voters who backed Donald Trump for president, telling a rally in Boston: Some people think the people who voted for Trump are racists and sexists and homophobes and deplorable folks. I dont agree, because Ive been there.