MSNBC Segment Calls White Rural Voters Most 'Racist, Dangerous, Xenophobic, Anti-Gay' People In The Country
As MSNBC prepares for its coverage of the 2024 election, the network summoned the authors of one of the most racist books of the past decade.
The authors, Thomas Schaller and Paul Waldman, of "White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy" appeared on MSNBC this week to warn viewers about the plague that is "white rural voters," whom they say are the most dangerous "geodemographic" group in America.
"They are the most racist, xenophobic, anti-immigrant, anti-gay group in the country," Schaller said.
"Second, they're the most conspiracist group. QAnon support and subscribers, election denialism, COVID denialism instead of scientific skepticism, Obama birtherism."
He added that white rural voters do not believe in democracy:
"They don’t believe in an independent press or free speech.
They’re most likely to say the president should be able to act unilaterally without any checks from Congress, or the courts or the bureaucracy. They're also the most strongly White nationalist and White Christian nationalist," Schaller said. "Fourth, they’re most likely to excuse or justify violence as an acceptable alternative to peaceful public discourse."
Schaller and Waldman are – you guessed it – white men.
Guilty white men, that is:
Imagine saying that about any other race. The authors would've been chastised and banned from appearing on MSNBC ever again.
But because they disparaged white rural voters, the network respected their beliefs.
The segment was nasty, divisive, and textbook racism. It sought to convince gullible viewers that white people are the enemy and their "rage" is threatening.
We must stop excusing racism just because it's targeted at white Americans. Coordinated hate is not the answer.
Also, we expect the "white rage" segment to incite internal drama within MSNBC. The network handed Joy Reid a primetime show to have those exact conversations about white people.
Undoubtedly, she's perturbed that the guilty white authors appeared on set with the white hosts "Morning Joe" instead.
White privilege?