Or, they just hate minorities.
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Who exactly does the term “welfare queen” conjure up in your mind? A white woman in rural Maine? Read more

It is a fact. That the poorest Apalacian in Apalacia. Thinks THEY, are better than a Harvard Constitutional Lawyer who happens to be Half Black , but WHOLE BLACK in their eyes, and became President. Thats how they think. And when do we ever hear THEIR Elected Officials, . talking about their plight ? We dont. And they… Read more

Who exactly does the term “welfare queen” conjure up in your mind? A white woman in rural Maine? Read more

Nice.
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Yes, but sometimes it’s by white people WHO ARE ON WELFARE. Read more

prob coulda added a cartoon with someone engaging the banker dude guy... with him interrupting anything they were saying with: what about white on white crime! Read more

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And the most common thing I see on Facebook from older white GOP folks is “Well we had 3 kids, working one job and we never once had to have the government bail us out. We pulled up our bootstraps and made it work.” Read more

My dad was complaining about a homeless guy with a phone and I pointed out that 1) homeless people in our state have access to free phones with limited services and that 2) a person without a house or a social support group might need a phone far more than he or I. Why shouldn’t they have the ability to schedule… Read more

I am so sick of republicans! Read more

I live in a mixed area - probably 60/40 white/minority. Rarely hear anyone talk bad about white women on CHIPS, but do hear it (in very “code heavy” language) about minorities using government programs. Read more

That’s the thing, really. Read more

The tv and cell phone thing always gets me. I just got laid off a few weeks ago. I still have my nice cell phone—it’s the only phone I have. I still have two nice televisions in my apartment. The cool clothing in my closet hasn’t changed—the expensive pieces are still there, too. My stuff didn’t suddenly downgrade… Read more

I am from an almost all white European country and this is how people talk about poverty there
These people are so lazy
They have too many babies
They are all on drugs
They spend their welfare on booze

Because I grew up as one of “these people” it helps me understand American racism to a degree. I feel more affinity with… Read more

Yep, and the Poor Whites Conundrum started right then with Nixon. On the tapes, you get to hear him specifically complain about welfare— because poor whites are ending up on the same level as “the blacks”, and that Just Won’t Do. He said it in so many words. Read more

The issue originates in the fact the Republicans didn’t know what to do after the Democrats got on the side of Civil Rights and the Dixie-crats needed a home (the Southern Strategy as it’s formally known). That’s when we see the term “welfare queen” become used and then made famous by Ronald Reagan later. It’s all… Read more

or companies offshoring, Read more

We did that 80 years ago. Read more

It’s almost as if we’re moving towards a future in which most work is automated and we’ll have to implement a number of counter weighting policies to renormalize the economy through higher wages, shorter work weeks, universal benefits, and a basic guaranteed income. But that’s crazy. Better we have god-like overlords… Read more