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To be fair, vice presidents almost always are chosen to tick boxes. For example a Northern presidential candidate will often choose a Southern vice presidential
by jhbadger 3y ago
To be fair, vice presidents almost always are chosen to tick boxes. For example a Northern presidential candidate will often choose a Southern vice presidential candidate and vice versa. Given how little a vice president matters (unless tragedy strikes) using them to "tick boxes" is their primary use.
- rayiner 3y agoUsually, the VP pick shores up support among a specific coalition. E.g. Trump picking Pence to shore up support among traditional evangelicals. But Biden was already far more popular than Harris among black voters. The campaign seems to have expected “first black woman VP” to carry weight, even though Harris had little pull among actual black voters. It’s quite distinct from traditional vice presidential box checking. To map that to the movie analogy—Marvel isn’t making a big deal about the first Muslim super hero to make the movie popular among the 1% of the country that’s Muslim.
- selimthegrim 3y agoIncidentally, Marvel badly executed the details - it isn’t wise to trumpet the Muslim part when you go ahead and use Punjabi Sikh cultural references that are extremely grating to Punjabi Muslims’ ears. (Not offensive, just extremely incongruous)