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Article: WHAT ABOUT THE RIGHTS OF ANGRY WHITE MEN?(PERSPECTIVE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- December 25, 1994
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Byline: STEVEN YATES
A number of journalists and pundits are crediting or blaming ``angry white men'' for the mass defeat of Democrats. Statistics support the charge.
The first and most fitting response, ``Of course!'' No one in his right mind supports politicians who consistently act against his interests and put him at an automatic disadvantage. In this respect, ``angry white men'' are no different from any other group.
But we did not adopt this label voluntarily, nor the group identification it implies. Both have been forced on us by the official ideology of the 1990s: Identity politics, something most of us reject because we see ...