Yago wrote:Royal Gooner wrote:Yago wrote:Royal Gooner wrote:Santi wrote:Biden just won the election
With his token black woman.
Because all those white men who became VP totally did so on merit. As if Pence wasn't picked specifically to pander to evangelicals. Harris is an incredibly smart and educated woman with plenty of experience. To imply that she somehow took the place of some poor undervalued white man just based on her sex and ethnicity is ridiculous and disgusting.
Certainly wasn't on grounds to shamelessly pander to women and ethnic minorities as Biden seems to have done. I'm not saying she's taken a place, I'm just saying it was pretty clear Biden wanted a woman as he said so earlier, which makes it clear he was going to make the decision based not on merit but on chromosomes (and if they happen to have the right skin pigmentation, that's a bonus for ol' Joe because he can play on the Obama card a little more!)
There's hundreds of years of history of picking men based on their chromosomes.
This isn't really true.
Up until fairly recent history, women didn't get treated equally in society in general , so the idea that VP's or Presidents were picked based on gender is not really the case. There was just no opportunity for women.
What is the case now is that the Democrat party have filtered their VP nomination based on gender and race explicitly. That is discriminatory. You don't fix years of discrimintaion with discrimination.
This is an example of what I mean about left wing politics - cry racism and sexism against others and then cheer and pat themselves on the back when they are guilty of the exact same thing.
The best candidate should be chosen and 'diversity' should not be a consideration.