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This doesn't make much sense. Especially since 50 years ago, your race mattered infinitely more than whatever religion or denomination you belonged to.
by x86_64Ubuntu 5y ago
This doesn't make much sense. Especially since 50 years ago, your race mattered infinitely more than whatever religion or denomination you belonged to.
- inglor_cz 5y agoThere was a lot of all-white communities in the USA back then, though. In those, people would search for other ways to think less of their neighbors. AFAIK Kennedy as the first Catholic president was considered somewhat of an outsider.
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- rejectedandsad 5y agoI think I recall your name from Reddit. But while race definitely mattered (and more), religion mattered in-race as well. Same thing for casteism in India. Religion matters, but so does caste even within Hinduism.
- x86_64Ubuntu 5y agoIn the white community, I think race matters more Protestant vs. Catholic, especially during the 1920s-1950s (When Kennedy was elected, folks would say "Put your hope in the Pope" because he was Catholic). While in the black community, we simply don't have that much of a Catholic or Muslim population for such in-group conflicts. Yes, I'm the same low-agreeableness person from Reddit.