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THREAD: I know 2020 is supposed to be the year of women but when I see @PeteButtigieg I see myself, a gay millennial. Its so powerful and I csnt help but root for him. It's not something a straight white Christian man can understand, no matter how "woke" they are.
I always wanted to go into politics but didnt bc I thought l one day when I came out that would be that. To see someone just like me do something I always wanted to but that I never thought was possible is forcing me to reevaluate everything. I thought I was well adjusted
To our current reality, gsy rights are starting to be recognized and in parts of the country we are accepted as equals. But the past few weeks seeing someone serious running for an office I thought I could never hold has got me thinking. I would never suggest we should
discount a candidate bc they happen to be a straight white Christian male (SWCM), but SWCM perhaps consider what it would mean to give some additional consideration to what it would mean for women and minorities to have someone in the WH they can relate to. It costs you nothing.
Up until 2008 there weren't any seriously considered candidate that didnt fit the SWCM mold and thet is something our country is trying to move past. But the past few weeks seeing #MayorPete kick off his candidacy have really given me insight into how POC must have felt
when Obama was given serious consideration and then spent two terms in office. A similarly oppressed minority finally given a seat at the table, but not just any seat, the seat at the head of the table. It must have been similarly exciting (and obviously later disapointing)
when Hilary won the nomination for women. Not even just for women that agree with her politics but for all women judt to know it is possible to break into those upper echelons of power. That is what the past few weeks have felt like to me. Just knowing #PeteForAmerica is not just
a symbolic run and is being given due consideration comencerate with his standing and experienced is something I know I will always remember. It's a turning point without a violent societal inflection point. It means nothing to most people but everything to some people.
SWCM, remember discrimination of LGBTQ Americans is still legal in many states, marital rape of women was legal in numerous states until the 90s, and racial minorities still face blatant discrimination dispite Congressional acts in the 60s. We are hindered but for your support
