I am generally of the opinion it is not even tho there is value in honestly acknowledging certain problems to be overrepresented in certain demographics in order to understand why that may be.
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I think ideas and values are more significant here because they are the things that motivate people and the things that can be changed.
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This has led me to be (gently) accused of not understanding how deeply ingrained race issues are in the American South. This is probably true but these are still ideas and values.
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We can reasonably attack white supremacy but not being white. I don't know why this is so hard. The distinction between ideas and people is getting harder and harder for more and more people.
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I think you’re taking it too literally. No one is saying white people vote a certain way because they were born white. The implied reason is a system that rewards their whiteness.
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That also implies that white supremacy isn’t just a freely made choice. It is hard to break out of a social mold if you’ve been thoroughly shaped in it.
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To dig a level deeper, the voting pattern is more specifically tied to white evangelical Christianity. You could argue that’s ideas, not people, which is literally true, but that’s not how it generally works in reality.
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How does it work in reality then. This seems to be what happened. White evangelicals voted overwhelmingly for Moore and non-evangelicals for the Democratic candidate.
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You seem to treat evangelicalism as something exogenous and orthogonal to race. But it’s a movement purposefully designed to advance the causes of American conservatism, ie benefit the rich and the white.
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Because it is. If white evangelicals vote differently to white non-evangelicals, it suggests this is more to do with belief than skin colour.
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In the same way, black evangelicals have different values to black secular intersectionals. Had a lot of arguments about that.
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