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It’s definitely not an excuse, but economic hardship and disparity is absolutely a factor in radicalization. Hitler and the national socialists’ rise to power was rooted in the great depression in Germany. It’s not enough to legislate hate speech or denounce hate groups, you have to tackle the circumstances which allow these groups to flourish. Effective combat of fascism has to have a strong economic component that guarantees stability and quality of life to lower income families, blue collar workers and anyone who’s increasingly becoming in danger of disenfranchisement by the current system.

(I know there is already a lot of discussion on different economic strategies, my issue is with this post’s blind denial that poverty plays a role in radicalization when it absolutely does. I feel like this would be more obvious on a site where every 2nd user would like to cosplay as an anarchist leader of the Rebellion. Economic hardship (rightly) makes people angry, and it’s a toss of the coin who redirects that anger.)

Also, I don’t know who Walker Bragman is and I don’t care. In this one specific tweet he makes a good point. *insert the worst person you know just made a valid point headline*

1. Walker Bragman is, in addition to frequently harassing black women on Twitter, the author of the liberal case for Trump.

2. Weird how impoverished Jewish people didn’t vote for the Nazis, or how impoverished black people in Detroit didn’t plan to kidnap the governor. Weird how they’re doing this against a governor who among other things, increased access to welfare prior to COVID and has expanded food stamp access during the pandemic.

Hold on, I’m just gonna look up the case report real quick, and… 

Okay, right and if I put that into Trulia…

God, this poor radicalised Nazi in his 1500 square foot home with a Jacuzzi sized bathtub. He obviously had no choice but to try and kidnap the governor 🙄

transcript: twitter thread from Dr. Sarah Taber

fuck this guy for pulling this shit when I have a deadline honestly Hi there, I work in ag! I also do canvassing in rural areas, including knocking doors in Bladen county NC- home of the NC-09 election fraud. You have no idea what you’re on about.

I see a new-ish home on a private tract of land. Not a moldering old trailer on a rented plot in a park. I see TWO big pickup trucks, one of which seems to have a motorcycle or ATV in the back. I see a satellite dish and the dude’s got his own dumpster.

I see a lot of coolers, a grill, yard tools, & racist flags in mint condition. That takes effort- those things fade fast. This is the home of someone who spends a lot of time and $ on leisure! This right here is a country playboy. “Radicalized by economic circumstances” ayfkm

If you stop & actually look at the stuff that’s strewn around by the porch, it’s not junk. It’s in good condition. It’s strewn around and the window’s broken because THIS HOME JUST GOT RAIDED BY THE FBI NOT BECAUSE IT’S THE AVATAR OF YOUR WHITE-TRASH FANTASIES

Did you know that almost half the population of Bladen County works in the pork industry? Most of them work in the Tar Heel plant, aka the largest slaughterhouse in the world. It’s 20 minutes from our house. So let’s talk what RURAL POVERTY looks like. ‘Cause this ain’t it.

It can get real fucking grim. Crowded trailer parks w decaying modular homes, surrounded by puddles that never go away because swamps are where you put the poor people. And weird enough, it’s not homogeneous. There’s always a few neighborhoods with nice crisp clean new houses (: 

Rural poverty is heavily skewed Latinx, Black, & Indigenous. The narrative about rural = white = poor is rich white folks’ invention. It exists to keep all their REAL oppressed workforce, mostly BIPOC, hidden from public view. 

JFC you’d think after watching the nation blow up with COVID hot spots fueled by meat plants people would have figured this out but NOPE, we’re right back to the Save The White Trash Narrative. You learned NOTHING from this pandemic.

Bladen County is filled with broke pork BIPOC slaughter workers living in shoddy trailer homes but you don’t see THEM running around trying to overthrow the gov’t. That was the Republicans!

And they did it in a nice clean way. They didn’t run around kidnapping governors bc they didn’t need to. They just stole ballots. You know, the respectable kind of coup d'etat.

[screenshot of a tweet: Walker Bragman, with a picture of a mansion, captioned “Ever seriously consider why people who live like this aren’t the ones who take up arms against their government? Are they just better people? Or could it be that they’ve benefitted more from the system and government is responsive to their demands (bc they own DC)?”]

Which brings us to THIS dumpster fire of a tweet Nothing says “I’m woke” like buying into rich people’s myth of themselves as obedient, supportive members of civil society. “People like this don’t take up arms against their own gov’t” ok do you really need a list

-Ammon & Cliven Bundy: rich men who took up arms against their own gov’t -Donald Trump: rich man deploying armed forces against his own people in contravention of the rules of his own gov’t -Vast majority of militias: it takes leisure & money to collect that many guns my dude

-The whole entire Confederate States of America: snotty rich kids’ club -Not to mention the DeVoses, the Kochs, the Mercers, & every other white moneyed dynasty actively pillaging the rest of the US. They don’t use guns bc they don’t NEED to. Not bc they’re nice.

Rich, propertied white folks are the single most militant demographic in the United States. And you know what they love? When journalists & “thought leaders” buy into their bullshit about how “poor whites are violent & the solution is to throw $$$ at rural areas [that we own].”

To be clear: poor white folks living in trailer homes are very real. They’re too broke, tired, & sick to overthrow the government. That’s what economic oppression does. It keeps you down. IDK how to explain the obvious fact that it takes MONEY & LEISURE to join/run a militia.

OP here is literally spreading right-wing propaganda. Right now. By blaming well-off white militants’ behavior on “poverty,” ergo the rest of us have to “save” them. When they’re already well-off. Stop it. Think about what you’ve done. Do better.