Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

No, harm to non-white people. Voting for Jill Stein is a specie of white privilege- in the face of a man threatening harm, hell promising harm, to non-whites, and you vote on some Ivory tower shit- only way is because he was not threatened himself. The guy I was reading said Trump voters must hate POC and immigrants because they voted for a guy who promised to fuck POC and immigrants over. But em didn't seem to get that his Jill vote fucked those people just as surely. I'm not posting this to mess with you- it just genuinely sickened me to hear someone complaining about how Trump voters obv don't care about some groups of people- em thinks he is educated but didn't see his stupidity at all.

You think people have an obligation to place your priorities above their own. You prioritize not having Trump in office. Many Stein voters prioritize seeing a third party candidate get traction.

That's not Stein voters exerting privilege. That's Stein voters having different priorities than you do.

I've finished most of White Privilege. I've had a hard time disagreeing with anything she said. The book is quite economical and lucid. But one thing I've not gotten from it is what you seem to be asserting here: That all voters must put the interests of POC at the top of their lists of priorities. Stein voters seem to care more about getting traction for the Green party than anything else. Who are you, me, or anyone else to tell them they must realign their priorities?

That's kind of what's been irritating about Russiagate. Trump is a buffoon and criminally oriented. But he won the election. The recourse is to beat him at the ballot box. The Left seems to think because it so detests him, he has no authority to be President. The Right did the same thing for eight years in regard to Obama.

The Left may have been right about Bush II. He arguably did steal the election and had no authority to preside in office. But Trump is a different story. He won the game. The game is replayed every four years. You get to beat him in 2020.

This thinking you seem to be exhibiting - that one must adhere to your priorities or be in a sort of "sphere of deviancy" for voters - is, well, a bit arrogant.

The argument you make is made routinely by Trump voters - "How can you not vote for the guy if he's worth X in tax savings, you dumbass." It's also made by Bernie voters - "Biden is corporate." Their priorities are different than yours. If you think your priorities are the best, okay. But no omniscient arbiter has said you're correct about that, and none ever will.