Countervail: 'Progressive-liberal Fascism Rears It's Ugly Head In The "Sharing Economy"'

[Stephen D. Williams]

Nice, thanks.  I'm from a small (11,000 then, 10,000 now) town in Ohio which, probably now and definitely when I grew up there, was
>99.9% white: there was a single black family in the whole town.  No Asians, no Hispanics.

sdw

On 11/11/16 10:16 AM, Razer wrote:
> That post on twitter got all sorts of RTs by Trump's HitCrew attacking GrubHub.
> Some of the accounts exist solely to attack GrubHub. Those are reported as Spam.
>
>
> I send this to the accounts that seem to be personally manned, and then block.
>
> #Trumpism Roots: "My high school had more convicted sex predator teachers than minority teachers"
>  
>
>> I’m from the rural Midwest. I now live in Washington, D.C. All of this talk about coastal elites needing to understand more of
>> America has it backward.
>>
>> My home county in Ohio is 97 percent white. It, like a lot of other very unrepresentative counties, went heavily for Donald Trump.
>>
>> My high school had about 950 students. Two were Asian. One was Hispanic. Zero were Muslim. All the teachers were white.
>>
>> My high school had more convicted sexual predator teachers than minority teachers. That’s a rural American story.
>>
>> In many of these areas, the only Muslims you see are in movies like “American Sniper.” (I knew zero Muslims before going to
>> college in another state.) You never see gay couples or even interracial ones. Much of rural and exurban American is a time
>> capsule to America’s past.
>>
>> And on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016, they dug it up.
>>
>> The first gay person I knew personally was my college roommate — a great man who made me a better person. But that’s an
>> experience I would have never had if I didn’t go to college and instead decided to live the rest of my life in my hometown.
>>
>> That was when I realized that not supporting gay marriage meant to actively deny rights to someone I knew personally. I wouldn’t
>> be denying marriage rights to other people; I would be denying marriage rights to Dave. I would have to look Dave in the eye and
>> say, “Dave, you deserve fewer rights than me. You deserve a lesser human experience.”
>>
>> When you grow up in rural America, denying rights to people is an abstract concept. Denying marriage rights to gay people isn’t
>> that much different than denying boarding rights to Klingons.
>
>
> http://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/im-a-coastal-elite-from-the-midwest-the-real-bubble-is-rural-america



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