gracchus:
Policy is often informed by the personal assumptions and priorities of the politician. If most politicians are white males, even well-meaning ones, what do people think the policy outcomes in general will be for women of colour? (trick question: we already know)
I’m sure you know this already, but the poster advocating against “purity tests” seems to only mean purity tests relating to race, sex, gender, and sexual orientation. He’s perfectly ok with ideological purity tests or even guilt-by-association:
Except Bernie doesn’t have to deal with being connected to Henry Kissinger or pharmaceutical companies during a health crisis or giving speeches to said companies when people are losing their sons or daughters to opioid addiction I.e. Legal synthetic heroin. Bernie does not equal Hillary Clinton. Bernie also doesn’t have to account for voting to start the war in Iraq which created a power vacuum that formed ISIS. Nor does he have to justify scandals connected to his families foundation. Nor does…
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