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CBS blocks Colbert interview with James Talarico. It immediately backfires (youtu.be)
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[–] 21 points 7 months ago (3 children)

But... if he's actually to the left of her, isn't that more important that just picking diversity for diversity's sake? Like am I missing something here? If he's actually to the left of her, why should she get the support?

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Would she be so far to the right of him that it does damage?

    Because it's a question of substance.

    The whole point of Affirmative Action was "All things being equal, diversity is better than homogeneity."

    Even if he was to the left of her, she's likely to bring up some issues that black women care about and that white men don't even realize are issues.

    So yes, if there's a substantive difference between their policies, that should be brought up. But if the things they support are substantially almost the same, there's some validity in the fact that she brings a perspective which is significantly underrepresented.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    "All other things being equal" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. The fact that she took one of those AIPAC affiliate sponsored fealty trips to Israel to tour the iron dome already had her way higher on my shit list on at least that issue even with Talarico still using all that "Israel has a right to defend itself" language and near as I can find has stopped short of calling it a genocide. Talarico at least has enough of a spine according to Drop Site News to call them atrocities and war crimes and supports banning offensive weapons which as far as I can find Crockett doesn't. That seems like a pretty big difference and that's just the first one I found with barely any digging.

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