We're Stuck With White People

[Hermit-The-Prog]

56. how dare you "How dare you"?

The poster you're questioning didn't resort to an ad hominem attack in calling on Democrats to "reject the inflammatory racial rhetoric of sheshe2". Your argument against that is simply an appeal to authority, which is logically fallacious.

I think the poster is wrong to consider the article worthy of rejection rather than consideration, but that opinion is independent of the (subjective) value of sheshe2 as a "DUer".

The poster expressed a legitimate concern about "disparaging 60% of the population" with that "inflammatory racial rhetoric". I think that's wrong for 2 reasons:

1. The article expresses pessimism about the collective choices of white voters, based on history both recent and long-term. This is not disparagement but rather assessment of a demographic;

2. The article is not racially inflammatory, but rather racially motivating. It seems more of a challenge to white people to provide reason for political optimism in the face of "the tens of millions of Americans who voted red". Why should that young black man be optimistic when Nazis and white supremacists were elected and re-elected while strutting their racism as a feature?