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Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Bloomberg Flunks the Wokeness Test [View all]DemocratSinceBirth
(99,708 posts)8. HMMM
7. Not surprising that a conservative who supported George W Bush would support Bloomberg.
McWhorter characterizes himself as "a cranky liberal Democrat". In support of this description, he states that while he "disagree[s] sustainedly with many of the tenets of the Civil Rights orthodoxy," he also "supports Barack Obama, reviles the War on Drugs, supports gay marriage, never voted for George Bush and writes of Black English as coherent speech". McWhorter additionally notes that the conservative Manhattan Institute, for which he worked, "has always been hospitable to Democrats".[12] McWhorter has criticized left-wing and activist educators in particular, such as Paulo Freire and Jonathan Kozol.[13] He believes that affirmative action should be based on class rather than race.[14] Political theorist Mark Satin identifies McWhorter as a radical centrist thinker.[15]
McWhorter is an atheist.[16]
Sounds like an interesting man.
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I support Bloomberg 'casue I think he has the best chance and the means to defeat Trump
Kaleva
Feb 2020
#1
"I think we disproportionately stop whites too much, and minorities too little"
phleshdef
Feb 2020
#5
Crime bill 1994. Very similar results, but on a national level from both Biden and Bernie.
Amimnoch
Feb 2020
#10
A majority of the members of the Congressional Black Caucus voted for the 1994 Crime Bill.
DemocratSinceBirth
Feb 2020
#17
Massive false equivalency. Bloomberg specifically said black people should be targeted by policy.
phleshdef
Feb 2020
#22
So true based on Democratic principles youd think we all share;its not even arguable yet here we are
InAbLuEsTaTe
Feb 2020
#18
Not surprising that a conservative who supported George W Bush would support Bloomberg.
DanTex
Feb 2020
#7
LOL. He said George Bush is the best thing to happen to Black America in 35 years!
DanTex
Feb 2020
#20
I would draw the line if McWhorter said he was "nauseated by John Kennedy"
DemocratSinceBirth
Feb 2020
#24
Not sure what that has to do with McWhorter being a Bush-supporting conservative.
DanTex
Feb 2020
#26
How should we weigh the opinion of candidates who said they were "nauseated by John Kennedy" ?
DemocratSinceBirth
Feb 2020
#28
I'm not outraged, I'm just pointing out that McWhorter is a conservative, so it makes sense that
DanTex
Feb 2020
#36
Right, that's part of his game. Write conservative articles for the National Review
DanTex
Feb 2020
#38
He defended the policy up until he decided to run. He also mounted a rogue counter-terrorism
emmaverybo
Feb 2020
#13
Who is afraid, for example, that Bloomberg would try to reimpose unduly punitive policies like that
tulipsandroses
Feb 2020
#23
I'm not. He wouldn't be getting the endorsements he's getting if that were so.
Amimnoch
Feb 2020
#29
I believe he would because he has a bigoted world-view and he believes as he has said that to
emmaverybo
Feb 2020
#34
At the same time he was bankrolling republicans and holding fundraisers for the likes of Peter King
tulipsandroses
Feb 2020
#32
He is running because he doesn't want Warren or Sanders- not because he wants to beat Trump
MoonlitKnight
Feb 2020
#31