• tomiant@piefed.social
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    3 days ago

    |Her skin color and gender are not important.

    Means she got experience being a minority. Know what I’m saying? If she says “I care about your tired, your poor, your huddled masses”, I’m more inclined to believe her than when an obese 86 year old billionaire in a brown shirt says it, you know. Except, the obese 86 year old billionaire in a brown shirt would never even say that, so…

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      I mean they are not important in and of themselves and should not be used directly as a reason to either support or dismiss her. I’d’ve thought that was obvious by context of literally everything else I said.

      Don’t support a person because of their skin color, sexually, or genitalia situation. Support a person for their actions, beliefs, and intentional associations. Yes, their skin color, upbringing, etc affect these things but that is not the same thing.