> >> i am voting for obama BECAUSE he is black; many more will vote
> >> for mc cain to prevent a black man from winning...
> > >jon
> >
> > 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
what i said doesn't make me a bigot, ronn, just someone who would like
to see affirmative action at the presidential level. when whites votes
for whites, to PREVENT a black man from being elected, THAT is
racist...
jon
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