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Tue Jun 16, 2015, 12:32 PMStar Member upaloopa (7,014 posts)Saying you won't vote for a certain person is showing privilegeper Michelangelo Signorile. I heard him say that on his radio show on Sirius this weekend.A caller said he wasn't going to vote for Hillary if she wins the nomination and Michelangelo said he can do that because he was privileged not being a member of a minority or not being gay when it is very important to those groups that the repubs do not win the White House. I thought it was an interesting comment on his part. I heard a similar idea spoken my Mark Thompson on his show Make It Plain on Sirius. I listen to Progressive talk on Sirius a lot when I am driving and most times the host supports Hillary's campaign.
Bluenorthwest (36,176 posts) 2. Well, yes. It demonstrates that those people are not willing to do what they obviously expected LGBT people and other minorities to do without fail for every election of the past- vote for the nominee anyway. Obama, let's face it, he ran a campaign that took swipes at LGBT people on many occasions and he himself was 'God tells me straights are superior' and yet we, being nuanced adults, voted for him anyway and it worked out pretty well on that issue. But I've never voted for a nominee that mentioned LGBT people only in the positive or with unmitigated support and for a few who snarled about their God being against me. I shudder to think what African Americans have had to overlook to vote for various nominees for various offices, some of which I can identify and recall and some of which I probably would not have noticed but they would, you know? How many Latino voters have had to vote for a candidate that did not come all the way to them? Millions. It goes on like this.
Nye Bevan (20,247 posts) 4. Yep. It's like "Wah! My guy didn't get nominated, so I'm going to help the Republican!"And of course there are probably groups that will suffer worse than you under a Republican president.
Cirque du So-What (10,602 posts) 7. And make no mistake...Withholding one's vote for the Democratic candidate helps the Republican. Must be nice to have privilege to squander so ruthlessly.
MuseRider (24,641 posts) 5. Interesting.I do NOT like Hillary Clinton and I do not support her. I would LOVE to vote for a woman for President but I do not want to vote for her. I am not someone who is likely to cross certain of my boundaries to vote for someone with a preference to write in someone else. However, as I told a person I have been PMing with, I will march myself in to vote and cast that vote for Hillary Clinton because quite frankly at that point she will be the only one standing between total servitude enforced on women by denying them more and more rights and someone who wants just that forcing of women. No matter how much I don't like her hawkish stance, her Wall Street support and other things too numerous to list when I would otherwise probably write in a name at this particular moment in time I have to think beyond that and cast that vote. Because of the reason I would be doing it I won't even have to hold my nose. This speeding train is going to run us down if we don't stop it now. I think he may very well be correct in this statement.
These idiots NEED oppression.And if they can't find it, they'll make their own.
Every now and then you guys nail one down. This is one of these times.
Response to LittleBlue (Reply #12)Tue Jun 16, 2015, 04:36 PMPuzzledtraveller (5,216 posts)77. You called it as I saw it too.It troubles me also that so many think he is correct in his assertion. I do not know why so many of, at least for me, my fellow liberal peers embrace so much totalitarianism in their own ideas.
It's funny, really. Primitives spend their time bashing people of faith, especially fundamentalists, yet they are so quick to adopt "Scarlet Lettering" of anyone who says or does anything against Leftist dogma. Vote Shaming -- Geez Louise..
Puzzledtraveller (5,216 posts)77. You called it as I saw it too.It troubles me also that so many think he is correct in his assertion. I do not know why so many of, at least for me, my fellow liberal peers embrace so much totalitarianism in their own ideas.
These idiots NEED oppression.
Maybe ..... you should pay attention more?
My stomach isn't that strong.
So far, I'm a 1. Wingnut2. A Racist3. A Homophobe (Not a real word by the way) 4. Religious Zealot (Though if I was tossing gays off a building and waving a black flag I'd be fine)5. BackwardsWhat have I missed?
I have "white privilege" which means I'm stuck working a job and paying taxes so those with real privilege can collect their welfare checks.
