07-18-2017, 12:10 PM
(07-18-2017, 11:59 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Not trying to derail, but this seems like as good a place as any to drop this.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/11/maps-presidential-election-race-gender-age/
The GOP, correctly, gets called out for pandering to white voters. Why, by the same token, does the Democratic party not receive the same criticisms for pandering to "minority" voters?
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(07-18-2017, 12:05 PM)GMDino Wrote: They don't?
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/04/18/workin-hillary-clinton-admits-pandering-black-people/
http://www.thedailybeast.com/hillary-clintons-tone-deaf-racial-pandering
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/04/how-to-pander-to-your-non-white-audience.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/04/hillary-clinton-pandering-radio/479004/
http://www.standard.net/National-Commentary/2016/05/13/Democrats-minorities-HIspanics-HillaryClinton-column-Cepeda
That was just the first page of the search.
I was about to say, it's a common criticism. The right is constantly criticizing the left for it, and there are quite a few on the left that criticize the identity politics game as well.
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