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White men swung to Biden. Trump made gains with black and Latino voters. Why?
Data-filled post-Election Day piece by Musa al-Gharbi, a liberal Columbia University sociology professor who takes an honest look at the numbers — except for not noticing the possibility of fraud. [TheGuardian] Minorities and women — the very people who are supposed to be central to the Democratic coalition — seem to have shifted in Trump’s direction this year.The prevailing narrative of the last five years has been that Trump seized and maintains power by appealing to the desires of white voters and men (and especially, white men) to preserve the patriarchy and white supremacy  ...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts individual happinessfirst will invariably fail. Strangely enough, other successful societies, such as China, Japan, Korea, and those kinds of places could also be lumped with white supremacistsocieties, since they push the same values... . However, Posted by: trailing wife 2020-11-27 |
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