95%

[dead0man]

McCain will win well over 80% of the white vote in states like MS and AL. I suppose we should call them out for being sheep as well, right?

BIG difference between 80% and 95% don't you think?

[dead0man]

This is a race issue, logic should have no part in it.

[dead0man]

A 10% swing in a vote isn't a huge difference?

[dead0man]

What do you mean by 'real'? Both race and gender are ultimately social constructs. They are 'real' only in the sense that we take and understand them to be 'real'.

WHAT THE HELL?  There are some people around here that I would expect to say something as stupid as this, but not you.  Race and gender are social constucts?  That's crazy talk.  I can almost see an argument for "race", but that's only because "race" might not be the best word to describe the differences in genetical makeup of the various "breeds" of homosapiens.  It's not "social constructs" that make my dog a female Lab, it's scienctific constructs.  There is a difference between a female Lab and a male Poodle just as there is a differnce between a male Pygmy and a female Armenian.  There is more than a social difference between those two people.

(I guess you can backpedal and say EVERYTHING is a social construct.  2 + 2 = 4 only because we all agree it does, thus it's a social construct.  But if that's your point...yippee..you might as well have said the sky is blue and water is wet.)

[dead0man]

I'd defend unisex bathrooms.  That's neither here nor there.  Science* tells us there is a differnce between male and female, it's NOT a social construct.  Period.  Anybody that says otherwise doesn't know what the words "science" and "social" mean.



*along with common sense

[dead0man]

Sure, if the sports arena was willing to lose the business of people that don't want to put up with unisex bathrooms. 

I guess if the sports arena was paid for by local tax dollars and the locals really didn't want unisex bathrooms....they could vote the idiots out of office that decided unisex bathrooms would be a good idea.  Where is this a problem?

[dead0man]

I should clarify, I don't think unisex bathrooms are a good idea all the time everywhere, I just think the people supplying the facilities should be able to make the choice as they see fit.  I would vote against any law that forced private entities to provide separate male and female toilet rooms.  That's a bad idea.

[dead0man]

That makes more sense.  Sorry for calling your initial post stupid, it was just short on info

I agree that race is often misused and doesn't "fit" with the actual science.  Pull a random guy out of Sub-Sahara Africa and another out of the Amazon and they'd both be "black" but they would be more genetically different from each other than I (german/english) would be from the Dali Lama.

I also concur on the sex/gender thing.  I thought you were saying there was no scientific difference between men and women, and that's just crazy.