It’s not too ephemeral. It’s part of standard white person indoctrination. We’re trained to ignore color (unless it suits us) and that there’s a general historical narrative that applies to all peoples for all times.
An extreme example of that is: https://www.bighistoryproject.com/home
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I’m glad you reposted it. I think that is one of my biggest complaints about Trump : he makes all white men look bad. The world is watching and he reflects some of the deeper parts of whiteness that I’d rather wasn’t there, but it is. It’s hiding in our humor. It’s hiding in the substitute words we use for black such as hood-rat and such. It hides in phrases like, “any reasonable person would agree that”, which means, “any white man of my class would agree”, but we are usually blind to it.
He represents that. He makes me look bad. I don’t want that.
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Oh Congress doesn’t like her much either. She also stands a chance of them grouping up and figuring out a way to start impeachment proceedings against her too.
With Trump, it’ll be simple. She knows the game though, and it’ll be tougher. Still possible though.
I’d be fine with Kaine. He’s, well… normal. Just, normal. It’s an odd sight.
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Pence is too evangelical for my taste, but I was raised up north with an automatic bias of looking at evangelicals as alien creatures.
Maybe as VP, he could be the spokesman for the evangelicals and say, “Hey look people, I’m trying here”. But I don’t know if I’d want him to have the veto power. He also would stand a chance of getting widespread congressional support because of the high evangelical/baptist showing in Congress, so he might be one of the few cases where things actually *do* go through Congress more quickly than usual, although I generally think the “if President = R and Congress = R, then bills pass, and visa vera” is bunk. Too much infighting for that.
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I think they’re pretty equal on Faith – Kaine and Pence… but the difference is one knows the dividing line and one doesn’t. I understand Pence (and the other evangelical’s point of view) but they’re mistaken.
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After the civil war, some states tried to pass “intelligence tests”, literacy tests, things like that. Of course the white were well educated, the blacks not-so-much.
Thing is: voting is a right. It’s not a privilege. If you’re a citizen you have the right to vote It’s mentioned 5 times in the US Constitution. Freedom of Speech? once. Guns? once. voting rights? 5 times. It’s a big deal.
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