‘Hillbilly Elegy’ critics show they despise ‘deplorables’

To be fair, everything coming from the left is political. But the reaction to this Netflix film tells us something about the way the left feels right now.

Writing about the reaction, Rod Dreher comments, It is now OK to hate Deplorables again, and maybe even mandatory. He adds, I think the privilege discourse among middle-class, educated, white liberals is mostly about rearranging prejudices to make lower-class white people deserving of the scorn of the uppers.

The old Southern Democrats maintained the allegiance of poor whites by making sure those poor whites felt they could look down on blacks. The modern Democratic Party maintains the allegiance of ­upper-middle-class whites by making sure they can look down on lower-class whites. By ­humanizing those lower-class whites, Netflix s Hillbilly Elegy calls the whole enterprise into question.

via nypost.com