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milestogo

(16,829 posts)
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 08:20 PM Nov 2020

Clearly, white voters are not a monolith, and nobody expects them to be.

This should go a long way toward suggesting that black voters, hispanic voters, evangelical voters, LGBT voters, senior voters, youth voters, and suburban women voters are also not monoliths.

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Clearly, white voters are not a monolith, and nobody expects them to be. (Original Post) milestogo Nov 2020 OP
That thought has crossed my mind. nt LAS14 Nov 2020 #1
Yes, and I think we would go a long way toward improving politics in this country... regnaD kciN Nov 2020 #2
This is what white supremacy looks like; all the "others" go in one basket (n/t) Spider Jerusalem Nov 2020 #3

regnaD kciN

(26,044 posts)
2. Yes, and I think we would go a long way toward improving politics in this country...
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 08:25 PM
Nov 2020

...if people stopped pigeonholing everyone into one or another monolithic group. There is no "typical white voter," "typical Black voter," "typical Latinx voter," and so on, and treating everyone as part of one Borg-like cohort or another only turns up the heat and promotes the kind of alienation that the powers that be rely on to manipulate us.

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