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Jesus fucking Christ. You really only see shit in black and white, don't you? Both candidates would have kept an overwhelmingly racist system in place. The point is that one party fights any change to that system whatsoever tooth and fucking nail. The other party is at least attempting to make corrections. No candidate exists that will upend the nature of this racist system. That's the beauty of systemic racism. It is not easily undone.
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I agree that the Democrats are of course millions of miles better on the issue. Again, my sole point was, we can't have a standard like, "You vote for the GOP, you are racist." I sense you don't even agree with that. Being a reasonable person, you understand that people vote for varieties of reasons. And our stupid two party system has bizarrely forced people with legitimate policy desires to wind up under an umbrella with lunatic racists. The GOP doesn't get a pass for any of it, of course. It owns the Southern Strategy. But that farmer in Nebraska who doesn't know jack about race issues, but desires certain GOP economic policies, is not a racist.
Spend some time in flyoverland. There are people who have never had any reason to think about the issue.
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? I don't understand the point of this response.
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I was highlighting the "miserable choice" scenario people are faced with regarding bigotry using the golf course analogy. People are compelled to compromise principles all the time. It doesn't make them bigots. I've bitten my lip on god only knows how many occasions, as I'm sure many of us have, because business interests dictated it. This includes hearing people make awful bigoted jokes. I'm not a racist for doing so. I was a guy who needed a job, or who couldn't afford to alienate a referral source. In the same vein, a guy who really truly believes that Hillary was an existential threat on issues he deemed important was left with a Hobson's choice of having to vote for Trump. He can't be reflexively labeled a racist. His situation is much more complex than that.
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