A Black woman has never lost the general election for POTUS in US history but 45 white men have lost

jeffw@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 495 points –
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45 and 1 white woman

facepalm thanks, fixed the titled

Edit: I’m still wrong. But this was a shower thought. There’s a reason this community isn’t called “well thought out comments”

Statistically it probably wasn't 45 men by today's definition.

......I think I know what you're getting at, but if I'm right, that's pretty racist.

what are you talking about? racist? I think they're saying that since ~2% of the population identifies as trans and more are probably eggs, we likely had one trans president before, but they weren't out to the public, or perhaps even themselves.

I read it as him making a reference to black people being legally considered to be 3/5ths of a man back when the united states was founded. So if you go by those definitions, Obama wouldn't have added up to "1".

Which is why I said thats pretty racist.

But he said by today's definition, and today the 3/5ths thing is in the past

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