NBC News analyst Anand Giridharadas gave his take on the white working-class Friday.
“They crave identity politics.”
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“I’m not a fan of Roseanne the person,” Giridharadas said. “I did enjoy that one episode, that may be the only one I’ll watch, but I enjoyed it. I think it raised a truth, and a question.”
“I think the truth that it illustrated is working-class white people may claim to be against identity politics, but they actually crave identity politics. They want to be a part of it. They want to be seen and witnessed the way women and people of color are demanding representation.”
He also tweeted Friday:
The question raised by “Roseanne” is the question raised by Donald Trump: Can good people — and not only demagogues and conspiracy theorists and chauvinists — speak to the people they do, see them, and guide them into the future, not down a rabbit hole of intolerant nostalgia? https://t.co/sFcf8qI58b
— Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) March 30, 2018