All politics are identity politics. Republicans have long mocked this notion, treating the very concept of “identity politics” as a left-wing fixation. In reality, the GOP’s success is entirely due to the cheapest form of identity politics: For decades, but especially now, they have worked to distract voters from the party’s ruinous policies with appeals to their identity as white, provincial and, most importantly, Christian. This campaign has been enormously successful. White evangelicals have been the backbone of the GOP for decades not because they love tax cuts for the rich and environmental degradation, but because they have been told, repeatedly, that Democrats are demonic and there is no such thing as a liberal Christian.
This is why there’s a growing panic in the Republican ranks over the campaign of James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in Texas, and it’s not just fear that he could beat Ken Paxton, the state’s Republican attorney general. Win or lose, Talarico — a seminary student-turned-politician — embodies an existential threat to the right’s long-standing myth that to be Christian must necessarily mean voting Republican.
yeah, it’s not like a human rights issue where a tiny sliver of people are being denied human rights by bigots for no scientific reason whatsover.
oh wait shit that’s exactly what it is.
yeah he’s still better than paxton, but that’s a damned sad thing to boast
I don’t think playing a sport as your preferred gender is as much a human rights issue as you probably do. Especially if things like Rec league and j/v sports does not have the same limitation. That kind of nuance never seem to get mentioned by anyone, though.
Certainly this should be at the bottom of your list instead the thing that immediately cancels a politician.
ok, let’s exclude specifically you from the community, from random aspects of being able to participate. and apparently you didn’t read the whole thing:
I’m not in texas, still will tell fam there to vote for him, but fucks sake human rights are human rights and if you’ve already staked that out, you’re doing right. to backpedal now is just… fucking fuck.