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Technocracy Timmy
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« on: May 28, 2017, 02:08:37 PM »

Straight Christian white men only as President from now til 2117? No marginalization either?

I guess the definition of white, female, and possibly straight and Christian have all expanded to include many, many people by then for some unknown reason.
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« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2017, 06:29:23 PM »

Straight Christian white men only as President from now til 2117? No marginalization either?

He said no institutionalized marginalization, so in this scenario there would be plenty of implicit attitudes (like the one I described in my previous post).

Ahh I see. Well I still stand by my original post. Implicit attitudes won't be enough to keep a 100 year long trend of solely white Christian heterosexual males from being the only ones occupying the White House. The only feasible way this happens is if the definition of those terms expands to include many different people.
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« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2017, 02:44:06 PM »

This is exacerbated by the fact that neither political party bothers to engage with the Asian American community. Notice that Hispanics also have lower turnout rates.

Unfortunately a lot of this has to do with the size and distribution of Asian Americans. There are over 3 times as many Hispanics in this country as there are Asians. And many of those Hispanic voters live in crucial swing states (AZ, NV, FL, etc.) plus without winning over a consistent segment of Texas Hispanics, the GOP would've lost in 2000, 2004, and 2016.

Honestly, Asian Americans aren't gonna become a targeted demographic group until states like Washington and New York come into play. This requires the GOP to abandon their southern strategy and to court upscale voters of all races. Asian Americans will become a crucial voting group in such a realignment.

I was going to respond to the rest of your post about Asian stereotypes with my own personal experience but my experience is pretty unique compared to the average American. I grew up a couple miles away from little Saigon and had a lot of Vietnamese friends growing up. My first manager was a 29 year old Vietnamese guy (though he was raised here) and I hear Vietnamese every day at work from coworkers and customers. Probably a very different environment than most Americans have experienced. Tongue
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