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  • Whiteness is not an objective quality of people but a socially constructed category that expands or contracts depending on what is needed to maintain in group dominance.

    When the in group is weak, you’ll see more people being considered “white,” and when it is strong, the tests will get stricter (looking not only at skin color, for example, but at ancestry). It’s really just a question of how confident racists are that they have sufficient clout to exclude a particular group without undermining their exclusion of other groups.




  • Do you not understand that it’s a joke?

    Obviously we all know the paper is talking about the microorganism, but since the real cause of the famine wasn’t the microorganism but the British, it’s funny to act like the paper is insulting the British rather than talking about the microorganism.

    That’s the only way I can interpret your comment in any coherent way, that the joke just went completely over your head.



  • Because the democrats made the mind-numbingly stupid decision to pivot right like they always do, this time on immigration. No more, “Building the wall is racist,” no more, “No one is illegal,” instead it was, “We’re the ones who are actually going to build the wall, Trump’s all talk.” To this end, they attempted to pass a bill that would have greatly expanded the president’s ability to crack down on immigrants.

    They figured, as they always do, that everyone would simply fall in line behind them as the “lesser evil.” Instead, the result was that they undermined their argument that stricter immigration laws were grounded in racism (which they are, of course), and failed to distinguish themselves from the Republican position. Many Latinos have conservative positions on other issues, and, perceiving little significant difference between the two parties’ stances on immigration, they voted based on other, less important cultural issues where there was a meaningful difference. It’s worth noting that some people have the sentiment, “We came here legally so they can too,” and it was only when there was (correct) messaging that cracking down on undocumented immigrants was a slippery slope that would endanger legal immigrants that they were able to be persuaded to set aside other cultural issues. This messaging was abandoned because it was considered potentially alienating the the oh so precious (white) moderate Republicans, who also didn’t vote for them, because they’re nonexistent/unwinnable.

    This is one of many, many examples of how moving towards the “center” can alienate voters and lose votes, especially when it involves acting against your constituents’ material interests.




  • There are some libertarian types who might put up a token objection to medding in foreign conflicts. However, Trump equivocated on foreign policy while Biden and Harris were fully gung ho about getting involved in every conflict everywhere, which allowed Trump to sell himself as more “moderate” on foreign policy (though in reality he’s also a hawk).

    The core of Trump’s base has no problem with it, of course, but they’re always going to vote for him and not every voter Trump replied on to win fits that stereotype.









  • OBJECTION!@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlHave some civility.
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    26 days ago

    Non sequitor. Not what I said and not a Republican.

    Campaigns are about winning swing states, those are just the rules of the game. Kamala lost that game worse than any Democrat in nearly 40 years. Maybe the rules we have aren’t fair, and if they were different, she would’ve lost by a smaller margin. But then, both campaigns would’ve been run completely differently, the same candidates might not have even been the nominees, etc.

    By the actual rules of the actual game, Kamala lost extremely badly.