Response to Sargon on Race

To start off, I am putting this in #TWIS so you will see it. I dont think you were dumb, I love your content Sargon but I think in that video you had as much a bias against the idea of race being a part in this as the people you were addressing did (for different reasons obviously). And I know why, they want to justify their anti-white bullshit and you want to shut them down. But you were clearly more... excited in that video than usual. It clearly bothered you.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/places-most-unsettled-by-rapid-demographic-change-go-for-donald-trump-1478010940

Basically white flight at the voting booth

https://twitter.com/stasavage/status/806501295653785600

https://twitter.com/DouthatNYT/status/806673012258914305

And this is reflected in this Vox article which found that economic anxiety explanations only go so far. Because the biggest supporters of Trump and Le Pen are people who are fairly well off.

http://www.vox.com/2016/9/19/12933072/far-right-white-riot-trump-brexit

Ctrl-f 'Harvard' to find the most telling portion

"The most systematic effort to do this, to date, comes from Harvard University’s Pippa Norris and the University of Michigan’s Ronald Inglehart. Norris and Inglehart looked at 12 years of European Social Survey data, surveying a whopping 294,000 respondents, to figure out the relationship between economic and cultural grievances and support for the European far-right.

They found something startling: Earlier research suggesting the European far right draws support from globalization’s losers was simply wrong.

"The strongest populist support," they write, "remains among the petty bourgeoisie — typically small proprietors like self-employed plumbers, or family owned small businesses, and mom-and-pop shopkeepers — not among the category of low-waged, unskilled manual workers.""

Again, Vox uses this to justify its progressivism but it doesnt mean it's wrong