I was talking about the people who run Mississippi, not Tig Notaro. She's awesome.

Fair. Don't know her much (I know her by name but that's it) and haven't seen her stuff yet IIRC so I don't have an opinion on her.

Do yourself a favor, her Taylor Dayne story is a masterpiece... youtu.be/Z5eoHyXngTE?...

Nobody specified that. See the issue with doing this about a whole region is that you characterize everyone in that region, including oppressed groups (which include the poor and working class of any race), as less deserving of liberation. You offer nothing but smugness. Get out of the way.

"You offer nothing but smugness"? Wow. Somebody's had an allergy to mirrors for a while.

Honestly, white Americans have their own set of issues. What is the left going to do when the white population is no longer a significant plurality? It's not words that are the Democrats' problem; it's the way we talk about people. This argument is illustrative of it. Has anybody thought maybe...

...the reason why we're losing people to Trump is the fact that we've told poor white Americans we're not interested. It really bothers me how Democrats have just completely ignored (or fucked over) the white poor. Nobody wants to invest. We are the party of the working class. ..

... I'm sure a response will be "well, they're racist." Okay, but not everybody is, and they're still citizens. We still need to get into these communities, show them what good government can do. We had this path in 2016 in front of us. Including the warnings that voters were pissed. We ignored it..

.. racism and hate is a massive problem in this country. But our focus on it has blinded us to some other equally massive problems in this country which put us where we are today. Mississippi is the way it is because of Democrats, too. You can't just write off people.

Every time a "freelance journalist" (congratulations on having a blog) makes that same transparently absurd argument, an angel stabs themself in the eye. People don't become Nazis because they're poor, they become Nazis because they're evil. You just self-pwned, well done. Give the poor some credit.

Obviously, you don't understand psychology. Struggle causes resentment. And my god, so Bluesky of you to go right to Nazi. Come on. GTFOH

A freelance psychologist too?! My, what a Renaissance troll you are!

Counter argument: The problem is not the words or the way the Democrats talk to people; it's the things they do to people with their unpopular policies. And that includes foreigners.

The funny thing is, my tankie friend, is that you're in here talking about foreigner treatment when I don't know one Communist society that has EVER treated outsiders well. So please review your own personal beliefs before making a statement like that.

Ask Paul Robeson about that bullshit