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More than 1,000 events planned in US after ICE shootings in Minneapolis and Portland
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Victim blaming redstates is over. We do solidarity now.
...I'm not sure if you know what victim blaming is.
Look closely at the protest numbers in the red states on the protest map I linked just above, and look at my post history, and know I'm writing from a red state. There are a LOT of undercounted voices here. Red states are largely red through excessive gerrymandering and massive economic inequality. All you're really telling me is that you have never lived in a rural area of the US since 2015 and have no idea of the massive social pressure and firehosing of propaganda directed at these places.
While I would not have chosen the word "victim" myself, @nanoswarm9k@lemmus.org is not factually wrong. It's very easy to blame red states while flatly refusing to acknowledge how they got to be there, and what forces are in place to ensure they stay there, exactly as they are: it is the biggest wealth stripping operation in US history, and it shows zero signs of stopping.
To support you: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2017/08/02/book-review-white-trash-the-400-year-untold-history-of-class-in-america-by-nancy-isenberg/
Thank you for this; I had not seen it and I'll definitely take a look. Someone who talked about this subject for decades, not just directly but woven into the background of his subjects, was Gore Vidal. Any time I reread him I am shocked at just how prescient his insights were, but like Carl Sagan it proves that there were those who could see this coming fifty years ago.