Diversity

[AvilaSurfer]

Earlier this week Corey Booker was lamenting Kamala Harris dropping out. He said since she’s gone the Democrats have no diversity left in presidential candidates.
You got a gay guy, a Jewish guy and a woman. And Booker is still in. So um, what?

 

[Aussie Pete]

Earlier this week Corey Booker was lamenting Kamala Harris dropping out. He said since she’s gone the Democrats have no diversity left in presidential candidates.
You got a gay guy, a Jewish guy and a woman. And Booker is still in. So um, what?

The problem is that they are all Democrats.

 

[PloverWing]

If you're talking about the MSNBC interview here:

, it sounds like he's talking about the ethnic diversity in an upcoming debate, that the debate he's thinking of may have an all-white set of candidates, even though the original set of candidates was a better reflection of the nation's ethnic diversity.

For the Democratic Party, where we try to value ethnic diversity, it's an uncomfortable outcome. Still, we haven't had any actual primaries yet; the shape of the race may change once voting starts.

 

[pdudgeon]

If you're talking about the MSNBC interview here:

, it sounds like he's talking about the ethnic diversity in an upcoming debate, that the debate he's thinking of may have an all-white set of candidates, even though the original set of candidates was a better reflection of the nation's ethnic diversity.

For the Democratic Party, where we try to value ethnic diversity, it's an uncomfortable outcome. Still, we haven't had any actual primaries yet; the shape of the race may change once voting starts.

I don't think that there's any doubt at all that the shape of the race will change once voting starts. The real question is what will emerge from the Democratic Party.

 

[PloverWing]

I don't think that there's any doubt at all that the shape of the race will change once voting starts. The real question is what will emerge from the Democratic Party.

Do you mean how far left ideologically the party will end up being, or whether we'll be a party of all white people despite our nice-sounding words to the contrary, or something else?

 

[Wolseley]

I am soooooo tired of identity politics. White. Black. Hispanic. Muslim. Jewish. Atheist. Male. Female. Other.

Why can't we just ditch all of that balderdash when it comes to politics, and just focus on the fact that we're all Americans? Have we really drifted so far apart that we have to live like warring tribes in 7th-century Arabia?

I don't know. Maybe it's just human nature. I had a friend who told me once that even if every baby born in the future was genetically-engineered to carry an equal number of genes from virtually every race and ethnic group on the planet, the only thing that would happen is that all the people born on Tuesdays would hate all the people born on Thursdays.

 

[pdudgeon]

I hear you! We've lost a lot of good people here on the site for various reasons; people that we couldn't afford to loose. Lost, but not forgotten.

 

[solid_core]

Diversity is wrong.

 

[pdudgeon]

Do you mean how far left ideologically the party will end up being, or whether we'll be a party of all white people despite our nice-sounding words to the contrary, or something else?

A combination of all the above, I think. Far Left, White, international connections, Big pockets, good political connections. Did someone say Hillary was running?

 

[PloverWing]

Diversity is wrong.

Do you mean that it's wrong for the United States to be made up of people from a variety of ethnic groups, or that it's wrong for our political leadership to be as ethnically diverse as our population?

 

[Wolseley]

It's wrong for diversity to be the thing that tears us apart. Diversity, whatever it's merits or lack thereof, must be secondary to unity; otherwise, you don't have a united country or national identity. You have, as I mentioned before, a collection of squabbling tribes, all battling with each other.

 

[chevyontheriver]

Earlier this week Corey Booker was lamenting Kamala Harris dropping out. He said since she’s gone the Democrats have no diversity left in presidential candidates.
You got a gay guy, a Jewish guy and a woman. And Booker is still in. So um, what?

And a couple of billionaires!

 

[Gnarwhal]

Earlier this week Corey Booker was lamenting Kamala Harris dropping out. He said since she’s gone the Democrats have no diversity left in presidential candidates.
You got a gay guy, a Jewish guy and a woman. And Booker is still in. So um, what?

It's a dog whistle. People like Booker (and really just about everyone in the Democratic field) imagine a world without straight white people, specifically straight white men, when they talk about "diversity". They want to ethnically cleanse the United States.

 

[PloverWing]

I have, very belatedly, realized that this is the Catholic politics forum. I apologize for having intruded, and I will now tiptoe quietly out the back door.

 

[Wolseley]

I have, very belatedly, realized that this is the Catholic politics forum. I apologize for having intruded, and I will now tiptoe quietly out the back door.

You don't have to do that....you are welcome here, as long as you know that whatever you post cannot contradict or disparage Catholic doctrine.
We all have differing political views, and as long as we can express them without rancor or personal attacks, it's all good. I have my own views on politics, but I try not to let them lead me into generalized negative classifications of people simply because they disagree with me.

 

[KarateCowboy]

It's a dog whistle. People like Booker (and really just about everyone in the Democratic field) imagine a world without straight white people, specifically straight white men, when they talk about "diversity". They want to ethnically cleanse the United States.

"White inferiorists" and "white inferiority". The name of the players and the game