{"id":63458,"date":"2017-06-13T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63458"},"modified":"2017-06-12T17:37:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T22:37:37","slug":"i-thought-about-doing-an-avery-librelle-dramatization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63458","title":{"rendered":"I Thought About Doing An &#8220;Avery Librelle&#8221; Dramatization&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;of a smug, entitled, East-Coast fop &#8220;analyzing&#8221; the blue-collar white people who put Donald Trump in office &#8211; the line &#8220;Shut up, you worthless sister-boinking Budweiser-drinking white trash&#8221; Avery explained&#8221; croxsed my mind &#8211; but in the end, I figured <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/interrogation\/2017\/06\/advice_on_how_to_talk_to_the_white_working_class.html\">this piece in (where else)\u00a0<em>Slate\u00a0<\/em>by (who else?) Isaac Chotiner parodied itself<\/a> far beyond my feeble talents.<\/p>\n<p>Shot:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"text text-1 parbase section\">\n<p>If there is one thing everyone should be able to agree on about the past seven months, it is that the white working class can no longer be described as \u201cforgotten.\u201d Beaten-down? Racist? Mistreated? Angry? Victimized? Sure. We have read and heard the white working class described in all of those ways. But the election of Donald Trump has ensured that we are discussing this group ad nauseam.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Chaser:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"text-3 text parbase section\">\n<p>I spoke recently by phone with [author Joan Williams], who is also a distinguished professor of law at University of California Hastings College of the Law. During the course of our conversation, which has been edited and condensed for clarity, we discussed Trump\u2019s view of his own voters, the role of racism in class resentments, and whether there is any way to avoid being \u201ccondescending\u201d to Trump\u2019s supporters.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"text-3 text parbase section\">\n<p>Go head, read it. \u00a0And as you do, just note &#8211; that sound you&#8217;re hearing is Donald Trump measuring the drapes for his second term.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;of a smug, entitled, East-Coast fop &#8220;analyzing&#8221; the blue-collar white people who put Donald Trump in office &#8211; the line &#8220;Shut up, you worthless sister-boinking Budweiser-drinking white trash&#8221; Avery explained&#8221; croxsed my mind &#8211; but in the end, I figured this piece in (where else)\u00a0Slate\u00a0by (who else?) Isaac Chotiner parodied itself far beyond my feeble [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,79,368],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-slander-files","category-trump-derangement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63459,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63458\/revisions\/63459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}