Current Events > Dying of Whiteness = the best book ever to show how a Republican thinks

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Trevor voiced a literal willingness to die for his place in this hierarchy, rather than participate in a system that might put him on the same plane as immigrants or racial minorities

Even on deaths doorstep, Trevor wasnt angry. In fact, he staunchly supported the stance
promoted by his elected officials.

Aint no way I would ever support Obamacare or sign up for it, he told me. I would rather die.

When I asked him why he felt this way even as he faced severe illness, he explained, We dont need any more government in our lives. And in any case, no way I want my tax dollars paying for Mexicans or welfare queens.

Trevors attitude points to an existential question at the center of my explorations: Of what was Trevor dying? At the most basic level, he died of the toxic effects of liver damage caused by hepatitis C. When the liver becomes inflamed, it fails to filter toxins from the blood and loses the ability to produce vital compounds such as bile and albumin. Without treatment, death comes by systematic deterioration. Jaundice gives way to ascites, which then gives way to hepatic encephalopathy and coma. Its an exceedingly slow, painful way to go out.

Yet I could not help but think that Trevors deteriorating condition resulted also from the toxic effects of dogma. Dogma that told him that governmental assistance in any form was evil and not to be trusted, even when the assistance came in the form of federal contracts with private health insurance or pharmaceutical companies, or from expanded communal safety nets. Dogma that, as he made abundantly clear, aligned with beliefs about a racial hierarchy that overtly and implicitly aimed to
keep white Americans hovering above Mexicans, welfare queens, and other nonwhite others. Dogma suggesting to Trevor that minority groups received lavish benefits from the state, even though he himself lived and died on a low-income budget with state assistance.

CrazyandLazy posted...

Dogma that told him that governmental assistance in any form was evil and not to be trusted, even when the assistance came in the form of federal contracts with private health insurance or pharmaceutical companies, or from expanded communal safety nets.

Ayn Rand would be proud

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more people need to read this book

Well then...

DuranOfForcena posted...

but not too proud to accept government assistance herself in her later years

legit lol'd

I might read that.

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DuranOfForcena posted...

but not too proud to accept government assistance herself in her later years

this

like many conservatives, she was a hypocrite
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