What's Wrong with Cancer Alley? Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Anatomy of Trumpism

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What's the Matter with Cancer Alley? Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Anatomy of Trumpism

By Sean McCann

AUGUST 22, 2016THIS MIGHT BE the saddest story you’ll read all year. If not, Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Strangers in Their Own Land will certainly be among the most timely of books in this moment of seeming near political apocalypse. Hochschild is

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[naotmaa]

This was a really interesting read. It reminded me of an interview Joy Reid tweeted about with J.D. Vance. He's a conservative writer who wrote a book called Hillbilly Elegy, which is about poor white people in America. Here's a link to the interview. http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/trump-us-politics-poor-whites/
Basically quite similar to this article. Very nuanced. Gives insight into why poor whites love trump, vote conservative, and don't trust liberals. Don't necessarily agree with all of the points, but like you said, these people aren't going away and it's important to at least understand where they're coming from.

[meadowphoenix]

Oh, this gets me heated.

Hochschild conveys her strong appreciation for the appealing people she has met and her reasonable belief that her readers should share in her affection. She urges us all, liberal and conservative alike, to trade mutual suspicion for common appreciation.... Such economic dependence could be matched, Hochschild suggests in closing, by a larger empathy bridge of the sort she has sought to construct. American liberals, she contends, should not only sympathize with the acute sense of vulnerability experienced by people like Mike Schaff and Jackie Tabor. They should appreciate as well the stoicism and loyalty and communal identity beloved of the people she depicts. By the same token, Hochschild suggests that the conservatives she has come to know might someday appreciate the importance that liberals place on the values of fairness and care and the public good. Both factions, she hopes, might find a way to come together to address the environmental degradation that threatens us all.lmao, fuck her tbh. White

[nesmith]

Sorry, but this has made me even less sympathetic than I might have been. If people want to be willfully stupid and look down on people who are worse off with the attitude "well they just don't want to work so let 'em starve," I am sure as hell not going to respect or admire that goddamn evil self-centered myopic bullshit point of view.