The Slow Fade of the Angry White Male

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https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles ... white-male

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...On that day, a student protest in Manhattan against the shootings in Ohio was met by a counteroffensive -- the "Hard Hat Riot." Dozens of construction workers organized, marched and clobbered the protesters, kicking them and beating them with hard hats in what the New York Times described as a "wild noontime melee."

The construction workers were sick of hippies, sick of leftists, sick of privileged college kids complaining about the war and the draft and the country. Some rioters branched off to Pace University, near City Hall, where they beat up more kids after having been pelted with objects hurled from the school's roof. Less than three weeks later, President Richard Nixon welcomed a delegation of hard hats to the White House...

Nowadays, most construction workers are mild-mannered Mexicans, who aren't going to hurt anybody.

The "whites" have moved to the affluent suburbs, lead a charmed life, and have nothing to complain about.

...Under Bush's Democratic successor, the angry white guys promptly reappeared, recast as the Tea Party, to wage a culture war under the guise of a tax protest...

Nah. Just a bunch of privileged turds who have nothing better to do than to watch Fox News or circle jerk on internet message boards all day.