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Wanglicious posted...

i'll be honest, i'm not sure where you're going with this. it's drifted from the subject matter of "using the __ card" to... i'm not sure? best i'm getting is that you don't like it when politicians use their religion as a positive identifying factor because you don't feel like they're oppressed but you do find politicians using identifying aspects of them which have been traditionally marginalized as positives? it's still the same concept of using __ card, you just favor one more than the other, there's no objection to that.

Mainly I find it unfair how "She's playing the woman card!" will be called out much quicker than the "He's playing the Christian Card!" Especially when women have been marginalized (and you can fit so many other groups in there, from atheists and jews to gay people and hispanics), while Christians definitely haven't. (Even if they feel oppressed because they can no longer force their beliefs on others)

I mean I had a neighbor tell me sometime back that he doesn't think a woman could run the country because women aren't stable enough. It's an idea that still needs to be fought against, so when women run for President they kind of have to deal with this sort of shit while almost nobody would probably ever say "I don't think a Christian can run the country because Christians aren't stable enough."

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