Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
> At 07:32 PM Monday 6/9/2008, jon louis mann wrote:
...
>> i am voting for obama BECAUSE he is black; many more will vote
>> for mc cain to prevent a black man from winning...
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>
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> Sorry if this comes as news to you, but that makes you just as much
> of a racist bigot as they are. As the people who voted for Hillary
> just because she was a woman were just as much sexist as those who
> voted against her just because she was a woman.
Ronn--
I don't know, I guess it depends on your definition of
"racist". If it means "taking race into account for
any reason at all", then I guess you're right. But I
don't think you can make "bigot" stick.
I don't know if Jon meant this by putting the two
clauses together, but it's something I've been doing
for years. I recognize that certain ethnic etc groups
are less likely to get votes because of voter prejudice.
In the absence of other information, I usually vote the
other way with the intent of restoring fairness.
I doubt that Jon really has an absence of information,
so he may have other reasons. But here's my example:
People are running for an office, but it's barely worth
my time to vote at all. I'm certainly not going to
do any research on the candidates. (Think Dogcatcher, or
the Board of Directors of that company you have one share
in, ...) In that case, I routinely vote for women.
(Since one can almost always tell candidates' genders
from their names.) I don't usually extend this to
ethnicities, but I guess I'm less likely to vote
for "Reginald Chumley III" than for "John Smith".
Although that's not really ethnic; the former could
have chosen to go by "RJ Chumley", after all.
---David
Restoring the balance, Maru
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