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Article: `ANGRY WHITE MEN' STEREOTYPE SHOULD BE JUNKED.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- May 5, 1995
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Byline: E.J. DIONNE JR.
WASHINGTON It has been the fashion since the 1994 elections to speak of ``angry white men'' as the defining group of the next political era. The fashion has become a small industry since the Oklahoma City tragedy, transforming bombers and killers into particularly egregious symbols of a whole class.
To say the least, it's bizarre to see terrorists as stand-ins for large numbers of white men. It is no better than claiming that Black Panthers who shot cops in the 1960s were representative of all African-American males. Both are forms of racism and paranoia.
But cultural and journalistic inventions such as ``angry ...