Letters to the Editor
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AKA
I really don't want you to think that I take a condescending view of working class/poor white folks. I've spent most of my time among them, ain't sitting too high on the food chain myself, and understand very well not disowning a whole person (white or black) for having racist attitudes.
And I also understand a lot of the poor white (esp Southern) blowback anger.
It sucks that poor white rural people are still regularly mocked and caricatured in mainstream media and by "progressive" people who should know better.
And yes, p.c. witchhunts do happen (although the root concept that people should be treated with dignity and respect isn't loony).
But I've also spent a lot of time with and been looked after by poor working black folks, and I see absolutely no reason decrying racist tactics is the same as writing off the entire demographic those tactics were aimed at.
Whether you want to say Clinton is deliberately stoking racial tensions or not working to discourage them, I think she's no innocent babe lost in the dark.
You see things differently, I know. I bet we still agree about a bunch of stuff.