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STOP. LUMPING. BLACK. MEN. IN. WITH. THESE. SELLOUTS.
Black men were the LARGEST male group to vote for Harris. Im sick of ppl trying to claim otherwise.
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Edit; also dont act like men only sold out the country. Trump's second largest voting block was WHITE WOMEN
A majority of White people voted for Trump (men and women) three elections in a row. Its unusual to treat the largest demographic in the county as a foregone conclusion and direct all ire at minority groups as a whole.
By all means, ire towards anyone that voted for Trump is acceptable but perhaps we should talk about who keeps voting for him over and over again.
or perhaps making generalizations about people based on race and sex is the inherent logical flaw of racism and sexism even if you feel you have the moral high ground.
trying to find who to point the finger at is the conservative solution. the problem lies deeper. it's in our social media, our news, our socio-economic struggles, and our culture of "rugged individualism".
like yes, the racism was always there but it was waning before billionaires got their claws into our social media feeds. and that issue goes WAAAAAY beyond America.
just like when Trump was crazy for saying covid was a hoax aimed at him even though it affected the whole world, it would be crazy to blame this GLOBAL shift to right wing authoritarianism on any one race. are white people responsible for modi?
blaming white people or men could only possibly serve to Make people angry. it's not a solution oriented approach unless you're willing to go full genocide.
-a white male who despises Trump among others and has worked hard to fight against him and is tried of somehow still getting blamed.
I've been seeing more "this minority demographic is to blame" from so called white liberals so I feel its important to challenge that notion and make it clear that the majority demographic has put their support behind Trump for three consecutive elections. In fact the majority of the majority demographic has voted for the Republican candidate since the civil rights act passed in 1964. Minorities are the only reason we've had any Democrats in the White House since then.
I agree with you generally. Pointing fingers is not a productive long term strategy. The only complicating factor here is that there are a sizable number of Trump supporters that are also Christian nationalists. Its hard to counter a racial supremacist ideology while ignoring race.
My philosophy is that looking at such data and recognizing trends is important in understanding how/why we got here but applying generalizations to an individual based on data is unproductive and reductive. I don't think all Hispanic people are responsible for Trump's election, nor are all White people.
Let's get real, fellow White man who voted Blue. We're a minority. For everyone like you and me, three more people who look like us voted for the shitgibbon and his merry band of miscreants. In a country with 95 million people counted as White males (who are NOT Hispanic), that's 56 million White dudes who think the Shitgibbon is on their side. And when we include Hispanics? Well, all of the 6 million idiots who voted for Trump thinking they would be counted among the good ones because they thought their Whiteness overcame their Hispanicness? They're in the Finding Out phase.
All you can do is say "Hey, I voted Clinton in 2016, Biden in 2020, and Harris in 2024. It's not my fault 56 million people who look like me shared a single brain cell and elected that shithead into office." Do what you can to help people survive in the Shitgibbon Era.
my point isn't that the stats are wrong. my point is that pointing fingers gets us nowhere. the point is that we need to look at the actual issues and not focus on identity politics, but i guess I'm fighting against every dollar that every billionaire pumps into every piece of media when i say that.
we're all being whipped into a frenzy and probably going to kill each other over it. it will probably only make everything much worse.
And my point is that while on the surface, your point makes sense, and yes, we are on the road to a bloody civil war, your point rings hollow when seen by someone who looks at people who look like you and me abusing them because their skin is darker than ours. This is a real thing going on. It's a real problem for an awful lot of people. You may think pointing fingers gets us nowhere, but not pointing fingers and calling this out is how we got to where we are now. And frankly, you saying 'pointing fingers gets us nowhere' is your privilege speaking. My beautiful Black wife getting called an ape, an n-word, or worse by people who look like me is more important to me than coddling some racist asshole's feelings. I'm going to call them out every chance I get, and I'm going to call people calling to just look the other way out as well. It's easy to do that, and in my book, it's cowardly as well.
If you're truly on the progressive side of the aisle, please use your privilege to stand up for those who can't. Otherwise, you're part of the problem.
I stopped reading after this. Racism was waning my ASS. White America voted OVER 50% for that jackass while being the largest voting block in the country. It's white ppls fault.
How the hell do you fix anything when you ignore with whom the problem lies? White ppl are the ones who are overwhelmingly conservative regardless of class and education. Everyone else has this shit figured out except for a few dumbass latinos who thought they were white and are QUICKLY realizing they're not
you don't have to ignore with whom the problem lies, you have to keep going.
that's not the end of the puzzle. that's not a solution. it's only anger and blame. demographics aren't a goal or an answer. they are a guidepost with which we can do further research.
pointing fingers does nothing. we need ACTIONABLE solutions. otherwise you're just spreading hate and division. the who is useful to figure out the how and why. but if you stop there all you're going to do is incite blood feuds.
ok, so WHAT'S THE SOLUTION.
if it fully falls to the feet of a race and i an to blame, what's the solution?
reeducation camps?
people's skin color didn't make them this way. to believe that IS racism. no matter what direction it's pointed.
I'm not saying white people didn't vote overwhelmingly for Trump. I'm not saying it's not their fault. I'm saying that assigning fault is inherently the wrong strategy. it's not a solution oriented mindset. it's just anger.
so, that's why i say we need to focus on the HOW and the WHY not the WHO. yes, the who can help us understand the how and why, but it's not the end of the path. it's just lazy to get to "the white people did it" and stop.
and would you seriously argue that racism hasn't gotten worse in america since 2015? because as bad as it might have been, it's gotten so much worse. the political right finally figured out the internet and are using it to turn as all against each other.
or maybe many white people are just ok being racist
tired of having to tiptoe around it
#murderedbybargraph