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What if whites were as monolithic as blacks in voting?

Posted on 1/13/23 at 10:01 am
Posted by RTRinTampa
Central FL
Member since Jan 2013
5532 posts
Posted on 1/13/23 at 10:01 am
What would the USA look like? Finland?

ETA: I mean voting.
This post was edited on 1/13/23 at 10:25 am
Posted by Powerman
Member since Jan 2004
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Posted on 1/13/23 at 10:01 am to
I don't know. Are the whites in Finland monolithic?
Posted by Timeoday
Easter Island
Member since Aug 2020
17781 posts
Posted on 1/13/23 at 10:25 am to
It is a huge shame whites are not.
Posted by BHS78
Member since May 2017
3432 posts
Posted on 1/13/23 at 10:37 am to
That would be Racist
Posted by GeauxTigerTM
Member since Sep 2006
30596 posts
Posted on 1/13/23 at 10:46 am to
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What if whites were as monolithic as blacks in voting?


It's actually kind of funny. No one even thinks to assume all white people must think, act, vote in the same way. It's naturally assumed that sharing the same skin color really has nothing to do with any of that, so white people are actually free to be...diverse...in their thinking and actions.

Whereas there is this assumption that if you're in any other group, you're part of "The _______ Community" and thus all think and act the same.

As an aside, it's what tends to make newly created "diverse" characters kind of awful in entertainment, because writers seem unable or unwilling to allow them to simply be interesting people with their own backstories, motives, etc. They are black, or gay, or a woman, or whatever FIRST and if there's anything else is far less important. White characters don't carry that baggage, so instead of talking about their "whiteness" all the time they can have an actual personality. Writers are also forced to make them interesting without that crutch. It's crazy.
Posted by 4cubbies
Member since Sep 2008
59144 posts
Posted on 1/13/23 at 10:48 am to
What does black voter turnout look like?

Posted by 4cubbies
Member since Sep 2008
59144 posts
Posted on 1/13/23 at 10:49 am to
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Whereas there is this assumption that if you're in any other group, you're part of "The _______ Community" and thus all think and act the same.


who makes this assumption? White people.
Posted by David_DJS
Member since Aug 2005
21813 posts
Posted on 1/13/23 at 11:09 am to
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who makes this assumption? White people.

You mean white liberals.
Posted by Plx1776
Member since Oct 2017
18156 posts
Posted on 1/13/23 at 11:11 am to
White people aren't allowed to be United in any way, for any reason. Well, unless they are united in their woke belief of all white people being born evil.
Posted by Padme
Member since Dec 2020
9304 posts
Posted on 1/13/23 at 11:15 am to
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who makes this assumption? White people.


white people like your president, yes

If you dont stay on the reservation, "you arent black", "what are you? a junkie"

Posted by Herooftheday
Member since Feb 2021
3830 posts
Posted on 1/13/23 at 11:16 am to
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who makes this assumption? White people.


Observing black people that go after black people that break from their voting norms.

Actually it's the same when white actors or important people do. Maybe it's simply a left thing.
Posted by AFistfulof$
New Orleans
Member since Jan 2013
1012 posts
Posted on 1/13/23 at 11:17 am to
“If you don’t vote for me, you ain’t black” ~ President Potato Head
Posted by LRB1967
Tennessee
Member since Dec 2020
22928 posts
Posted on 1/13/23 at 11:17 am to
Mittens would have served two terms
Posted by CAPEX
Member since Dec 2022
918 posts
Posted on 1/13/23 at 11:19 am to
Uh.. this is literally a criticism that African-Americans and other minorities make all the time.

Posted by Bulldogblitz
In my house
Member since Dec 2018
28158 posts
Posted on 1/13/23 at 11:23 am to
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Whereas there is this assumption that if you're in any other group, you're part of "The _______ Community" and thus all think and act the same.


A former boss of mine, happened to be black, would refer to those voting counter to "the group" as wandering off the plantation. It was very amusing how lax and cavalier he was with things he would say to me.
Posted by General_Sherman
Member since Oct 2022
257 posts
Posted on 1/13/23 at 11:26 am to
Finland has lower GDP per capita and lower median household than the US

Do not want to be like them at all; our diversity has made us a richer nation than them.
Posted by RTRinTampa
Central FL
Member since Jan 2013
5532 posts
Posted on 1/13/23 at 11:30 am to
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What does black voter turnout look like?


In Atlanta, Philly, Chicago, Milwaukee, etc... I think it was like 110%.
Posted by JackieTreehorn
Member since Sep 2013
34965 posts
Posted on 1/13/23 at 11:31 am to
We’d put an end to this shite overnight. The us would be just like the 1950’s again basically overnight. And I mean that in a good way.
This post was edited on 1/13/23 at 11:32 am
Posted by General_Sherman
Member since Oct 2022
257 posts
Posted on 1/13/23 at 11:36 am to
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We’d put an end to this shite overnight. The us would be just like the 1950’s again basically overnight. And I mean that in a good way.


This sounds like delusional segregationalist fantasyland

The US economy could never return to the 1950s for a variety of reasons namely emerging economies that have become more competitive with the US that weren’t competitive in the 50s. Has nothing to do with integration.
Posted by JackieTreehorn
Member since Sep 2013
34965 posts
Posted on 1/13/23 at 11:47 am to
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This sounds like delusional segregationalist fantasyland


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