Trains, Planes and Automobiles...and White Nationalists
Why dangerous trains only derail in white communities. The truth, and other fables
Issue #273 OpEd March 6, 2023
So you know how pretty much every piece of supposed “evidence” footage of UFOs flying around always seems to be taken from some remote location somewhere? Like a cornfield?
Have you ever wondered why these UFOs never seem to show up in Harlem or Detroit? Or Beverly Hills? Or Grosse Pointe?
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Well. Now, thanks to our Helpful White Nationalist friends, we have an answer for you: it’s because the UFOs have it in for white people. More specifically, they have it in for poorer white people, the rural folk that apparently no one cares about except for Republicans and White Nationalists. And that’s why these appearances don’t get much media coverage.
No! It’s true!
We know this to be true because of the February 3, 2023 derailment of the train in East Palestine, Ohio that was carrying all those dangerous chemicals. According to many right-wing media reports, this was a serious tragedy (we knew that already) made all the more serious by the shocking (shocking, I tell you) revelation that this tragedy was being willfully ignored and poorly responded to because no rich white people live there. “Conservative not rich white people.” Conservative not rich white people who probably voted overwhelmingly for Trump.
But don’t take my word for this travesty of justice! Truth Seeker Tucker Carlson The Almighty has proclaimed this to be true, as reported in this article in The Guardian:
Three weeks into the disaster, a new set of headlines has started to billow up from right-wing outlets and commentators. Now the tragedy of East Palestine has morphed into a racialized lament for the “forgotten” people abandoned by the uncaring “woke” Biden administration.
For “forgotten”, read white.
Leading the charge, as is so often the case with such white-America nativist fearmongering, is the Fox News star Tucker Carlson. “East Palestine is overwhelmingly white, and it’s politically conservative,” he said recently. “That shouldn’t be relevant, but it very much is.”
Carlson went on to describe East Palestine as a “poor benighted town whose people are forgotten, and in the view of the people who lead this country, forgettable.” Carlson highlighted the indisputable suffering of local residents who were forced to evacuate a two-mile area and since they have returned home remain fearful about the quality of the air and water.
Then Carlson contrasted such hardship with what he called the “favored poor” who live in “favored cities” such as Detroit and Philadelphia – a clear euphemism for urban centers, often led by Democratic mayors, with large Black populations.
OK, so just ignore the snarky tone of The Guardian here where they seem to imply that maybe Tucker is a bit off the mark. After all, this paper is based in London, England. Plus, The Guardian was founded in 1821 for crying out loud! So that means…that means they’re old. And out of touch. Except for the parts where we say they’re not.
Anyway, what you wanna focus on here is what Our Tucker said and then you can ignore the rest. So a good example of what to pay attention to? That would be that part toward the end where Tucker The Good and Compassionate says that East Palestine is a “poor, benighted town (full of poor, benighted white people)”, whereas cities like Detroit and Philadelphia (NOT full of poor, benighted white people) are FAVORED!
Well, obviously this means that really long trains carrying deadly stuff would never dare derail in a FAVORED COMMUNITY! Because that would be BAD and would attract all the lame-stream media coverage and people would care.
Oh, how they would care (as they have throughout history) about all these Black and Brown people who had been targeted by this evil train! And much would be done to rectify the situation immediately! Because this is America where we care about FAVORED COMMUNITIES!
Damn them. Damn them all to hell. Why does everyone hate poor, conservative white people? Why, God? WHY?
What are your thoughts about how and why trains carrying dangerous chemicals never seem to go through rich communities?
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