"The Sum of Us" author on what racism costs white people and the lie of a zero-sum racial hierarchy

[TomCADem]

5. Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson LET THEM EAT TWEETS

Yale and UC Berkeley present a similar argument, but from a political science perspective, talking about how it is no accident that Right Wing Media and the Republican party have become even more overtly white nationalist in recent years. By repeatedly stoking outrage, the Republican party and right wing media can get the working class to oppress themselves by supporting cuts in benefits to them by promising to own the libs, African Americans, Asians and Latinos. In other words, hate is rebranded as populism, which is married to pro 1 percent economic policy.

Of course, since the Republican Party and the Right Wing media have to continuously create outrage, they also need to create a self-contained echo chamber that is impervious to real world facts. Likewise, Republicans have to grow more and more extreme as noted by John Boehner recently to keep the outrage flowing.

Fighting racism not only protects minorities, but it also empowers the white working class to develop coalitions with such groups to protect their common economic interests.