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jmondine

(1,649 posts) Mon Sep 17, 2012, 09:08 PM Sep 2012

I am a straight white man. Here is how you get my vote, Mr. Romney.

Give my friends and neighbors with brown skin the benefit of the doubt that they are Americans, which they are.

Work to make voting, the cornerstone of any democracy, a free and easy process for every citizen, even those with less money, less time, no car, or no picture ID.

Stand up for my gay friends and relatives' right to all of the freedoms I enjoy, including marriage.

Declare that the government has no place telling my wife and mother what to do with their own bodies.

Your attempt to earn my vote by demonizing and attacking anyone who is not like me assumes that since I am white, straight and male, I must therefore be a willfully ignorant bigot. You insult me just as sure as you insult all of those who are “different” from me.

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I am a straight white man. Here is how you get my vote, Mr. Romney. (Original Post) jmondine Sep 2012 OP

Don't you hate it when bigots just assume you are one of them? Deep13 Sep 2012 #1

Yeah, I get a lot of that ... Scuba Sep 2012 #2

What's kind of funny is that I'm married to the man who wrote this tavalon Sep 2012 #3

Deep13

(39,154 posts)

1. Don't you hate it when bigots just assume you are one of them?

Reply to jmondine (Original post)

Mon Sep 17, 2012, 09:12 PM

Sep 2012

They'll say something racist, homophobic or misogynistic because they assume that because you are a white guy too, it must be okay.

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

2. Yeah, I get a lot of that ...

Reply to Deep13 (Reply #1)

Tue Sep 18, 2012, 06:55 AM

Sep 2012

... until people know me. I must look like a racist prick, because the real racist pricks always seem to assume I'm one of them.

I generally give them just enough rope, then hang them with it.

tavalon

(27,985 posts)

3. What's kind of funny is that I'm married to the man who wrote this

Reply to Deep13 (Reply #1)

Tue Sep 18, 2012, 07:38 AM

Sep 2012

and while he sees himself as a straight white man, he's actually a quarter Hispanic and has long curly hair so there is no way that people see him as Mr. Middle Class. And straight? Yeah, heterosexual, but no way, no how, straight (as in vanilla).

I think it's interesting that I get to see how he describes himself and how I see him and how much they diverge. I think though, he was just being a good writer and leaving the caveats out. I'm the caveat queen. That's why he's the better writer.

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