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A Black woman has never lost the general election for POTUS in US history but 45 white men have lost
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Statistically it probably wasn't 45 men by today's definition.
......I think I know what you're getting at, but if I'm right, that's pretty racist.
what are you talking about? racist? I think they're saying that since ~2% of the population identifies as trans and more are probably eggs, we likely had one trans president before, but they weren't out to the public, or perhaps even themselves.
Bingo.
I read it as him making a reference to black people being legally considered to be 3/5ths of a man back when the united states was founded. So if you go by those definitions, Obama wouldn't have added up to "1".
Which is why I said thats pretty racist.
But he said by today's definition, and today the 3/5ths thing is in the past