National Review on white people AGAIN

[Darth Nubian]

brehs what do we think here?

I think the Birchers have re-entered the ranks and there isn't a Buckley to banish them. They all hate us to some degree so fukk'em.

 

[the next guy]

rest of the article

The slide in the wrong direction was driven by drug and alcohol poisoning, chronic liver diseases, and suicide. In 1999, middle-aged blacks had higher rates of poisoning than whites; by 2013, rates were higher for whites. Overall, mortality rates for middle-aged blacks and Hispanics have declined since 1999, as they have increased for whites. The trend among whites breaks down neatly by levels of education. The mortality rate for middle-aged whites with a high-school degree or less has jumped since 1999; the rate for middle-aged whites with some college but not a degree stayed roughly flat; the rate for middle-aged whites with a college degree or more dropped. If there is such a thing as white privilege, no one has told less-educated whites. RELATED: Chaos in the Family, Chaos in the State: The White Working Class’s Dysfunction The most direct indicator of rising distress is that the suicide rate in the United States is at a roughly 30-year high, according to new figures from the National Center for Health Statistics. The rate increased for white middle-aged women by 80 percent from 1999–2014. Although the data wasn’t analyzed by education level, researchers believe it tracks with other findings about increased working-class mortality. SHARE ARTICLE ON FACEBOOKSHARE TWEET ARTICLETWEETIt is not just the middle-aged. The New York Times analyzed death certificates earlier this year. The good news is that the gap in death rates between young-adult blacks and whites is closing fast; the bad news is that soaring death rates for whites account for much of the change. The Times found that the cohort of whites aged 25–34 is the first to have higher death rates than the generation before it since the Vietnam War, and the trend is particularly pronounced among the less-educated. The rate of drug overdoses among young whites quintupled from 1999 to 2014. The white working class is dying from the effects of a long-running alienation from the mainstream of American life. The white working class is dying from the effects of a long-running alienation from the mainstream of American life. As one researcher told the Times, “they are not in stable relationships, they don’t have jobs, they have children they can’t feed and clothe, and they have no support network.” It is a formula for loneliness, stress, and despair. The Washington Post recently wrote a compelling portrait of a woman in rural Oklahoma who died at age 54 of cirrhosis of the liver. It was a tale of joblessness, of marital breakdown, of alcohol abuse, of repeated heartbreak, until she was “sick and tired of being sick and tired.” She drank herself to death. At her funeral, the Post reporter noted the plots of friends and relatives who had died at ages 46, 52, and 37. The authors of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper say middle-aged whites may be a “lost generation.” That is depressing enough, but there is no guarantee only one generation will be lost.

Read more at: The Working-Class Meltdown, by Rich Lowry, National Review

 

[Red Shield]

While you nikkas were celebrating, I read the article and see exactly what the end game is for all of these "the fall of white ppl" articles: "If there is such a thing as white privilege, no one has told less-educated whites."

Trump, surging frw sentiment, divisions becoming more clear and concrete...


explain in detail what you think the end game is if you don't mind

 

[kingofnyc]

 

[DrBanneker]

rest of the article

I really feel their pain and know what they are going through now is what happened to us 30-40 years ago. If the working classes, White and Black, aren't rescued soon there will be serious social disturbances. The only good, well I'm not sure I would call it "good" but whatever, that could come out of this is it will finally force those intellectuals that ranted about the Black working class collapse as being due to culture, genes, victim mentality, etc. to actually look at the economics and sociology of what causes all this. You notice how compassionate and hand wringing the Right is now it's the White working class. It isn't as easy to write people off when they are your own folks.

 

[the next guy]

I really feel their pain and know what they are going through now is what happened to us 30-40 years ago. If the working classes, White and Black, aren't rescued soon there will be serious social disturbances. The only good, well I'm not sure I would call it "good" but whatever, that could come out of this is it will finally force those intellectuals that ranted about the Black working class collapse as being due to culture, genes, victim mentality, etc. to actually look at the economics and sociology of what causes all this. You notice how compassionate and hand wringing the Right is now it's the White working class. It isn't as easy to write people off when they are your own folks.

This is eerily like the crack epidemic of 1985-1993, you're right. The original article was vicious though, here,

Chaos in the Family, Chaos in the State: The White Working Class’s Dysfunction, by Kevin D. Williamson, National Review

It was savage.