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Both parties are equal opportunity here. See the proposed Illinois map. Don't think putting this down to systemic racism is the way to go. Unless the democrats are part of the system keepin the people down.
Both parties do some gerrymandering yes but truth would disagree with you that both equally egregiously do so to minimize the effect of voting minorities. Take hellpit TX map which basically takes heavily minority districts and gives them no chance to elect someone they want diluting their vote. Gerrymandering Kinzigers district away aint the same. He will go make tons of money and continue the grift as a lobbyist.
You appear to assume that minorities will only vote for democrats. Weird.
No that asumption is clearly being made by a party which barely wins now with less than two percent of the vote in recent cancun cruz re-election and recent presidential election. They are clearly scared and rather than winning people over, for which i agree there are plenty who would consider another party based on ideas, they choose to dilute their vote. Nice try tho.
Based upon part affiliation, it looks like il is 50% dem 30% republican, which isn't quite so egregious. I get it, though, which is why I say it's a hard argument to make. What is happening, though, is there is a dearth of black representation in the south. Blacks comprise a greater proportion of the population in the south than elsewhere. Consequently, a population that has been historically neglected remains so. However we get there, that adds up to systemic racism in my estimation. Illinois is a case of a government being systemically anti-rural based on what I know of the situation as the husband of an Illinois farmers daughter.
This is and always will be a lame argument. It's really not so much weird as reality.
Why are you so focused on race? Parties will maximize their advantage based on votes. Each party does this. If you want to change it, vote to take away this power from the state legislature like California. Then give it to an independent commission dominated by democrats... like California.
Get what you vote for. Don't cry about it after.
lol way to ignore the point
It's not necessarily about the motivation behind the redistricting, it's the manifestation. I'm not arguing that every state where there is a republican majority means systemic racism is necessarily present. I'm simply suggesting that when you gerrymander a state to the point that it egregiously biases against one party, which happens to be a party a particular race most identifies with politically by a 15:1 ratio, the end result is probably something that could be called systemic racism, as evidenced by the Civil war generals still adoning the outside of the local houses of "justice."
Just here for lulz reupping this thread given your stated disdain.
Stay woke!
You don't think they are equally absurd, or you don't feel that my description of the extreme progressive perspective aligns with what you believe?
You got it! Enjoying the decline poolside, margarita in hand.
The numbers don't lie. Trump gained a little bit with the Hispanic vote, mainly in FL, otherwise it's a pretty clear pattern that they generally fall towards one side. The race lines were even more hardened in the era of 45, although maybe not as much as the education ones
www.newsweek.com
To half the country, they think that everyone who believes in systemic racism believes that. If you listen to Ben Shapiro (who is always worth a good laugh), he spends half of his time complaining about crazy folks on tik tok. We are guilty of this as well. We are a country of people yelling at unrealistic projections of each other.
I’m sure it was also different for blacks in 1928 compared to 1968. Too bad it continues to take multiple generations to move towards equality.
This is the problem. Nuance is nearly impossible. Pointed questions only lead to being called -ist. We are considering how to approach DEI on the podcast and not sure exactly how to do it.
The problem with this is that people are so afraid of being “cancelled” that its imposible to have these conversations without some sort of risk. Someone will get offended.
You will offend people by just having the conversation
I offend people by wearing a mask. Ironically these are the same people who think a discussion on race shouldn’t be offensive.
The only way to win that game is not to play
There a few well spoken ROs that I would like to have, but I’m certain they would say no. I doubt they’d want their (in my mind, completely reasonable) views public.
I definitely couldn’t discuss this issue in the public light, especially in our field, in this day and age and I’m just a nobody.
I think this would be a neat topic, but agree with others that I would be weary of putting my views or thoughts on the subject out there.
Call for censorship? Lame.
I think most of us are in favor of increased diversity in medicine. That doesn’t mean it is ok to shunt urm into a collapsing specialty so I also don’t see the point. In fact, by warning urm about the sh— show in radonc, I hope to increase the diversity of other specialties.
Yawn. What specifically is your issue with this thread? I have appreciated thus far, that despite being nonsensical, you have at least been succinct. Feel free to expound, so long as you have a point.
So basically, "says you." All the while, the most recent, and perhaps only, thread you've contributed is a reminder to not try to sleep with RTT's. Thanks for your contributions.
ASTRO uses membership dues to pay a radical extremist like Kendi, but this thread should be cancelled? Kendi is a race baiter, just ask John McWhorter.
I am very much for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Hope rad onc is including people into a healthy and safe space and not including people into a burning house. As rad onc began tasting a little bit of poverty, it had to go to the med-student-matching welfare line. There it seems to have discovered the sugar of being woke. Poverty knits people together but misery also loves company.
