Current Events > Washington Post runs puff piece on the plight of the isolated white worker lmao

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https://tinyurl.com/y7orpntc

It was minutes before the end of the first shift, and the beginning of the second, and the hallways at the chicken plant swarmed with workers coming and going. One pulled a hairnet over her curly hair, giggling at a joke. Two others exchanged kisses on the cheek. A woman with a black ponytail hugged everyone within reach. And a thin, ashen woman, whom no one greeted or even seemed to notice, suddenly smiled.

There he was. Standing near the lockers. Tall and crew-cut. Her boyfriend.

Hi, said Heaven Engle, 20.

Hey, replied Venson Heim, 25.

They met every day at this time, before he started his shift as a mechanic at Bell & Evans Plant 2, and she started hers as I dont know what they call it; I just check the chicken. It was the hardest moment of her day. She knew she was about to go at least eight hours without speaking English, or probably anything at all, in a plant where nearly all of the workers were Latino and spoke Spanish, and she was one of the few who wasnt and didnt.

She slowly took out her earrings, nose ring and lip ring, placing them into her knapsack, and he turned to leave. I got to go in 10 seconds, he said, and she grabbed onto him. Why are you trying to act like you want to leave me or something? she said, and the two held the embrace, swaying slightly, their world outside the plants walls white, rural, conservative feeling distant in this world within, where they were the outsiders, the ones who couldnt communicate, the minority.

In a country where whites will lose majority status in about a quarter-century, and where research suggests that demographic anxiety is contributing to many of the social fissures polarizing the United States, from immigration policy to welfare reform to the election of President Trump, the story of the coming decades will be, to some degree, the story of how white people adapt to a changing country. It will be the story of people like Heaven Engle and Venson Heim, both of whom were beginning careers on the bottom rung of an industry remade by Latinos, whose population growth is fueling that of America, and were now, in unusually intense circumstances, coming to understand what it means to be outnumbered.

They didnt know the heavy burden of discrimination familiar to members of historically oppressed minority groups, including biased policing and unequal access to jobs and housing. But some of the everyday experiences that have long challenged millions of black, Latino and immigrant Americans the struggle to understand and be understood, feeling unseen, fear of rapid judgments were beginning to challenge them, too.

Venson let go of Heaven. He told her he had to clock in. She watched him disappear around a corner, then stood there for a moment, alone. She pulled on a winter hat, a wool scarf and a thick coat, knowing how cold the factory can get, then went to a different clock-in station. In the nearly vacant hallway, she watched the clock, waiting for her shift to begin at 3:20.

Seven minutes left: Employees gathered around Heaven, first three, then four, then six.

lmaooooo are you fucking kidding me?
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Hasn't WaPo historically been a conservative newspaper >_>.
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FrisbeeDude posted...

Hi, said Heaven Engle, 20.

Hey, replied Venson Heim, 25.

These aren't real fucking names, come on
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Hexenherz posted...

Hasn't WaPo historically been a conservative newspaper >_>.

On foreign policy, yes.
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FrisbeeDude posted...

She knew she was about to go at least eight hours without speaking English, or probably anything at all, in a plant where nearly all of the workers were Latino and spoke Spanish, and she was one of the few who wasnt and didnt.

Fucking. Wahh.

FrisbeeDude posted...

the two held the embrace, swaying slightly, their world outside the plants walls white, rural, conservative feeling distant in this world within, where they were the outsiders, the ones who couldnt communicate, the minority.

LMAO what fucking snowflakes.
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The fact that liberals refuse to acknowledge theres millions of white working class people who have been greatly financially suffering since the 70s with inflation and stagnated wages is the same reason they lost to an idiot like Trump.
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Kazi1212 posted...

The fact that liberals refuse to acknowledge theres millions of white working class people who have been greatly financially suffering since the 70s with inflation and stagnated wages is the same reason they lost to an idiot like Trump.

why are your tries so poor?
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spudger posted...

Kazi1212 posted...

The fact that liberals refuse to acknowledge theres millions of white working class people who have been greatly financially suffering since the 70s with inflation and stagnated wages is the same reason they lost to an idiot like Trump.

why are your tries so poor?

Because people like you still somehow unfathomingly read these posts , why bother trying to come up with anything good if our audience are morons anyway?
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FrisbeeDude posted...

She slowly took out her earrings, nose ring and lip ring, placing them into her knapsack

And this is why you're working at a chicken plant.

Kazi1212 posted...

spudger posted...

Kazi1212 posted...

The fact that liberals refuse to acknowledge theres millions of white working class people who have been greatly financially suffering since the 70s with inflation and stagnated wages is the same reason they lost to an idiot like Trump.

why are your tries so poor?

Because people like you still somehow unfathomingly read these posts , why bother trying to come up with anything good if our audience are morons anyway?

audience is the biggest stretch ever.

but good job admitting your full of shit.
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spudger posted...

Kazi1212 posted...

spudger posted...

Kazi1212 posted...

The fact that liberals refuse to acknowledge theres millions of white working class people who have been greatly financially suffering since the 70s with inflation and stagnated wages is the same reason they lost to an idiot like Trump.

why are your tries so poor?

Because people like you still somehow unfathomingly read these posts , why bother trying to come up with anything good if our audience are morons anyway?

audience is the biggest stretch ever.

but good job admitting your full of shit.

I have been admitting that since forever, and yet regulars here still continue to read and respond to my posts. Its really quite astounding
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