When a significant portion of a party’s voters are openly unhappy with the race of their nominee, that’s when you know that ideological rot has set in and corroded their worldview. Such is the sad state of the Democratic Party in 2020, amid its current infatuation with identity politics and the toxic dogma of intersectionality.
A new survey from Pew Research finds that 41% of registered Democrats are “bothered” by the fact that their nominee, Joe Biden, is an older white male. In an interesting, if foreseeable twist, this regressive, discriminatory worldview is actually substantially more prevalent among white Democrats and voters with advanced degrees.
A whopping 49% of white Democrats say they are bothered by the nominee’s race and sex, while just roughly 30% of black and Hispanic Democrats share this race-based concern. So, too, Pew reports that Democrats with advanced degrees are the subgroup most overwhelmingly unified in their racially hostile qualms, with almost 60% admitting to being bothered by their nominee’s demographics.
Democratic voters who are bothered that the likely nominee for the #2020Election is an older white man are more liberal, more educated, younger and more likely to be white than those who are not bothered. https://t.co/8cIYUVkyQa pic.twitter.com/Y9u0IP8NI7
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) April 20, 2020
Unsurprisingly, almost 75% of Democrats who back Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a former Harvard professor who embodies your average woke academic perfectly, are upset about Biden’s race and sex.
What a sad worldview. Liberals and Democrats rightfully care about the history of racial injustice in this country, but they increasingly seem to have abandoned the goal of racial equality and a colorblind society in favor of a winner-take-all, regressive, and tokenistic approach to racial diversity.
So, too, there’s something deeply paternalistic and likely offensive about white Democrats tut-tutting about the need for racial diversity, while most actual minority Democrat voters don’t seem to care about the nominee’s race.
After all, Biden is only the nominee because of black voters and the way they lifted his campaign, starting with the South Carolina primary. They have overwhelmingly backed him, a white male, since nearly day one of the campaign. But apparently white, well-educated Democrats think they know what’s best for minorities better than those silly, actual black Americans, or something.
Thankfully, most black and Hispanic Democrats still have their head screwed on straight. They’re likely more in touch with both the reality of race in America and with the problems facing real people, too much so to care about what woke boxes politicians check off. It seems that engaging in this sort of performative, anti-white virtue signaling, where the white liberal drones on about how appalling the lack of diversity in Democratic presidential politics is, is both a luxury reserved to the wealthy and an intellectually bankrupt virtue-signal.
Look at me, I’m one of the good white people, it screams. I #checkmyprivilege, and I voted for Obama.
Perhaps the identity-obsession among white, well-educated Democrats is a product of our university system, which has largely been consumed by this kind of madness. But regardless of its origin, this regressive approach to race cannot sustain itself much longer. The Democratic Party relies on minority voters for its base, and unless something changes, many will eventually drift elsewhere in hopes of being treated like an actual individual — not just a box on the census.
