Democratic senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia recently dealt a mortal blow to Biden’s proposed Build Back Better Act which would apparently cost the American taxpayer anywhere from 1.75 to almost 5 trillion dollars. I have no way of knowing which of those figures is more accurate but my main concern is the plethora of truly ignorant responses to Manchin’s stance which he insists was born of the potentially dire economic repercussions of Biden’s bill.
Statements from various Hollywood celebrities such as Bette Midler suggested Manchin to be typically Southern in his lack of concern for Blacks and the impoverished in general. Longtime Democratic strategist Greg Pinelo tweeted that West Virginia’s White population was so racist that it would rather reject programs designed to help poor White people if they also benefited Blacks. Manchin, the mainstream narrative suggested, was motivated not by genuine economic concerns but by White Supremacy.
Stereotype any member of an “oppressed” minority and you will be slaughtered in the mainstream media. But in the demented Culture of the contemporary West, it is perfectly permissible to stereotype all those not categorized as such. Hence the insistence by Adaobi’s “educated” northern friends that all Texans were obviously racists. Hence the assertion by the “woke” media that Manchin’s objections to Biden’s bill had nothing to do with economics.