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Re: Race is a social construct? Sounds ridiculous. After all, you can see differences in skin color. - Edit 1

Before modification by damookster at 17/11/2024 01:43:28 PM

I think you're wrong.

Blueprint2024 ran an article entitled, "Why America Chose Trump: Inflation, Immigration, and the Democratic Brand." Those surveyed were given a choice of 25 reasons for not choosing Harris which were then ranked based on the responses. As one would suspect, the top two for all voters were inflation and immigration. This one rounded out the top three: "Kamala Harris is focused more on cultural issues like transgender issues than helping the middle class." And it was the clear number one reason given by all swing voters and swing voters who chose Trump.

Second, again according to surveys, the Trump ads on trans issues shifted opinion 2.7% towards Trump in the states where they were featured. A 27 year old woman from Washington DC cited in a NYT focus group, trans women in sports as the reason she broke with family and friends to vote for Trump. Here is part of her response: "I think I became radicalized on the men and women’s sports issue. The ad that said, “Kamala represents they/them. Trump represents you,” that was so compelling. While Trump is deranged, he represented normalcy somehow to me."

This shouldn't be surprising. While the majority of Americans support trans rights, 69% disagree with trans women competing against biological women.

As to your subject line, really? When mitochondrial DNA analysis suggests all humans can be traced back to possibly one woman in Africa 200,000 years ago, an external factor like skin color separates us in anything more than invented social constructs?


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