"Some people you just can't reach...."
Not the best known of quotes from the film Cool Hand Luke, but it certainly applies today, as it has for years. Regardless of how you may try, there are some ...in fact way too many....that can not be reached or reasoned with.
There's a book called Dying of Whiteness, where the author spent time in the poorest white rural areas and spoke to people and was appalled to find out that they would rather die of preventable illness than let people of color have healthcare
In his 2019 non-fiction book, Dying of Whiteness, which is based on several years of research undertaken in the 2010s in the South and Midwest states—Missouri, Tennessee and Kansas, physician and psychiatrist Jonathan Metzl reveals the unintended public health consequences of some right-wing backlash politics related to taxes, gun control, social safety nets, and healthcare on vulnerable white voters they had promised to help.
Through "field interviews, research and public-health data" gathered over the years of travel to these states, Metzl found that some vulnerable white Americans would rather die than betray their political views that have become enmeshed with their own sense of white identity.
There's a book called Dying of Whiteness, where the author spent time in the poorest white rural areas and spoke to people and was appalled to find out that they would rather die of preventable illness than let people of color have healthcare
In his 2019 non-fiction book, Dying of Whiteness, which is based on several years of research undertaken in the 2010s in the South and Midwest states—Missouri, Tennessee and Kansas, physician and psychiatrist Jonathan Metzl reveals the unintended public health consequences of some right-wing backlash politics related to taxes, gun control, social safety nets, and healthcare on vulnerable white voters they had promised to help.
Through "field interviews, research and public-health data" gathered over the years of travel to these states, Metzl found that some vulnerable white Americans would rather die than betray their political views that have become enmeshed with their own sense of white identity.
