If recent history is any guide, if the bomber ends up being a white anti-government extremist, white privilege will likely mean the attack is portrayed as just an isolated incident -- one that has no bearing on any larger policy debates, put another way, white privilege will work to not only insulate whites from collective blame, but also to insulate the political debate from any fallout from the attack.

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Let's hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American. by David Sirota

Let's hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American.

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At what point do [progressives] take off our partisan blinders and start wondering whether a very powerful faction of Democrats actually continues to SUPPORT President Bush and the War in Iraq?

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However, white male privilege means white men are not collectively denigrated/targeted for those shootings - even though most come at the hands of white dudes.

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Most often the electorate votes for change. by David Sirota

Most often the electorate votes for change.

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Hillary Clinton did not represent, on a lot of policy matters, what the American public perceived to be as a change.

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In America, we are living in a country where the deep economic problems have not been solved and arguably, in many cases, haven't been addressed.

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Typically in politics it is easier for the left to mobilize against a Republican president than it is to mobilize against a Democratic president, even in the cases when the Republican president or Democratic president are pushing the same exact thing.

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The reality of politics is, if Trump is the president tonight, every progressive group in America will be able to mobilize in a way tomorrow that they may not necessarily have been able to mobilize yesterday.

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