Biden/Buttigieg ticket

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(03-04-2020, 04:56 PM)Dill Wrote: Well there has been a debate about whether it's "racist" to assume greater resistance to gays on the part of black voters.

I didn't mean it's racist, I meant it might be prejudice. Again, that does not mean it's wrong. Not all prejudices are.

In this case, I just find it a bit quick to strictly align Pete's bad appeal to black voters with his being homosexual. Even if anecdotal experiences might point to that. Things might still be different if he were a frontrunner, or if he were older, better known, better suited to beat Trump, not from Indiana, not coming with some scrutiny over his own decisions.

E.g. if he were a more well-known leader in the polls, folks would know more about him than "he's gay" in the first place. If there were things to really like about him, it would be less important.

And with many people, if a gay person is annoying, his homosexuality quickly becomes the major flaw to rant about. If that person weren't annoying though, it would not come up as such a negative.