Dox47 wrote:
DW_a_mom wrote:
Who gets to decide this? Whose definition of "benefit" are you using?
The POC I know personally, and the community leaders I follow, all felt Trump set them back quite a bit in the areas they care most about.
What class would you say they are? Trump did pull historically high numbers of black and Latino voters for a modern Republican, largely from the working class, where I suspect your personal social group is leans more towards the professional classes that universally despised Trump.
I think they run the gambit, but even if they didn't, the question applies. Do POC believe they benefited under the Trump administration? From my vantage point, it seems like it was a mixed bag. More people were employed, but there also was an increase in racially motivated incidents, and a sense that opportunities were decreasing. In both cases claims can be made it was part of a previously existing trend, but we'll keep it simple and give credit + blame based on who was on watch. Is it our right to decide what statistics matter, and then use the statistics we choose to tell a group of people we don't belong to that they are better off now than they were, without finding out how they feel about it?
We do far too much telling other people what their reality looks like, instead of recognizing that we can't know their reality. The right way for Pepe to make his point, IMHO, would have been to note that statistics were showing an increase in the financial health of POC, instead of skipping steps and declaring "they benefited enormously."
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