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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, who exactly benefits from white privilege.  I can see myself a white, upper middle class male being born on third base, but what about white working class ethnic and people derogatorily referred to as rednecks and hillbillies.  When I told my Polish - American friend she benefitted from white priviledge, she responded that she spend two years in a refugee camp before coming to the U.S. and she has earned every single thing she has and that no one can tell her she's "priviledged." [/quote]
THIS, in large part, is what is driving Trump's popularity. Those of us who live in the DC-area bubble, where an income of $100k is considered merely OK, have a very skewed idea of the struggles that truly average whites - those with HS degrees and wages of $15 or $20/hr - deal with in their daily lives. (And that describes the majority - most people in this country are either lower-middle or working class). They see all the concern - and financial benefits - go to the truly impoverished, who in many cases live an equal or even better lifestyle than they, thanks to gov't assistance. That's exacerbated by the gov't support given to illegal immigrants (largely through K-12 school support and in-state tuition but also through policies such as sanctuary cities.) They are simply fed up...and thus, the Trump revolution.[/quote]

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