Legacy Media ‘Criminalizing The Views Of Working Class Americans’: Author

Academia, the legacy media, and the entertainment industry’s embrace of Woke ideology amounts to another form of warfare by elites on the American working class, a media critic has told CNN. Woke ideology, which prioritizes the embrace of Critical Race Theory, masks the most powerful forces in society’s exclusion of and contempt for those in much more precarious financial positions, she said.

This results in “affluent white liberals using the real pain of black Americans in order to withdraw from the common good and abandon the working class of all races,” said Batya Ungar-Sargon, the deputy opinion editor of Newsweek and author of the book “Bad News: How Woke Media is Undermining Democracy.”

“A lot of this conversation around Wokeness is actually about class,” she said.

“We are hiding a class divide in America,” she told Brian Stelter on Sunday’s episode of “Reliable Sources,” sounding a note not often heard on CNN. “We are hiding the total dispossession of the working class of all races by focusing on a very highly specialized, academic language around race.”

When Stelter implied that Glenn Youngkin’s victory in last week’s Virginia governor’s race called her thesis into question, she replied, “The media’s response to Youngkin’s victory is literally the reason that he won.”

She noted that hosts on MSNBC began to spin the victory by saying, “White supremacy wins again. Racism wins again,” but in fact, his lieutenant governor, Winsome Sears, “will be the first black woman to hold that job.” She added that his ticket attracted broad and diverse support statewide. “Glenn Youngkin managed to flip majority black districts, when he managed to get between 40% and 50% of Latino voters. Are all those people white supremacists? Of course they’re not.”

She said Youngkin voters said they “worried about number one, the economy … and number two, schooling. And it seems to me it is such a self-own” for the media “to tell people who are worried about the economy that that is white supremacy.”

“You are essentially criminalizing the views of working-class Americans,” she told Stelter. “You saw the same thing with the conversation around Critical Race Theory,” when pundits said that “these people don’t know what Critical Race Theory is” and insisted, falsely, that it is not taught in public schools.

“That is not a political statement. That is a class statement,” she said. “They are not educated enough to be opposed to Critical Race Theory. How dare they oppose

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