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The US has a fairly recent and abhorrent collection of very undeniable racist policies including outright slavery, Jim Crow laws, and redlining. There are ongoi

• mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y ago
  No doubt the US has more of a history with deep racial division than most other western democracies. But is the race of someone voting really useful, or is it just a fairly good proxy for other demographics. And at what point does this use of race as a demographic in itself become a societal pressure for blacks, latinos, asians etc to fit into certain stereotypes?
  • MockObject 4y ago
    Indeed, race is used as a proxy for class so commonly, that there was little reaction to Biden's quote "Poor Kids Are Just as Bright as White Kids" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/09/us/politics/joe-biden-poor-kids.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/09/us/politics/joe-biden-poo...
    • mikrotikker 4y ago
      In my circles there was a lot of reaction, as it seemed to be a Freudian slip as to how racist the man is. It's seemed instead the media rather wanted to protect him for some post-trumpian political reason.
      • mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y ago
        Trying to interpret a word transposition from a senile old man in any direction at all is just kind of sad, in my view. But of course, some people are so coddled by modernity and their social media bubbles that they implicitly think racism is all about choice of vocabulary or other completely superficial things.