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I don't follow that entirely, but perhaps the distinction is what's right in an ideal setting and what's more... understandable or reasonable in our reality. The former would be everybody proceeding in a race-blind and gender-blind fashion when choosing who to vote for, I guess, but predicated also on a past which had been race-blind and gender-blind. I see the conservative view as wanting to have their cake and eat it, too, pushing for people to behave in such an ideal way but ignoring the glaring lack of any such ideal history or its relevance. Our real history makes it very hard, imo, to clearly state that black people or women who are more inclined to vote for a black person or a woman just because of race or gender are just wrong to do so. That it's not right in the sense of an ideal world seems clear to me but does not indicate that they are wrong, either, since our reality and our history have been far from ideal.
So I wouldn't encourage voting that way, by I wouldn't criticize it, either (esp not as a white male!).
Steve
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