RiverguyVT wrote: ↑Fri Feb 25, 2022 1:15 am
VisorBoy wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 11:17 pm
Oh come off it. If you're willing to defend a comment made about the VP
that she's not qualified because she's black and female (note that only she is targeted; the one black, the one female VP in history),have it. But then who is being naïve by claiming the comments aren't racist...
Except... no one said that.
they (i) am saying she isn't qualified because she's an idiot.
No one said she isn't qualified because she's black. That's your invention. And that's your racism surfacing. (
again, I may add)
Ham did say this, "This is what a diversity hire gets you". If you take those words at face value, it means that if you hire someone that is a woman or black, you are going to get a crappy candidate.
I don't really think Ham thinks that, or meant that, or that he is a racist.
I also don't think Visorboy is a racist. History has demonstrated that absent someone making a conscious decision to choose a non-white male for a position like VP, or POTUS, it won't happen organically.
We've had 4 female VP candidates (Harris, Ferraro, Palin) and one POTUS candidate (Clinton).
And the first female SCOTUS member was also a diversity hire. They were chosen because they were female and/or of color. I don't think anyone who made those choices was racist or sexist. They were simply playing politics (and for the most part, failing).