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In reply to the discussion: How the 'Karen Meme' Confronts the Violent History of White Womanhood [View all]The Magistrate
(96,043 posts)Here is the exit polling data:
https://www.cnn.com/election/2016/results/exit-polls
In case you wish to preserve your eyes, here are the numbers you would find if you scrolled down a bit...
White women cast 37% of the votes in 2016.
Of these, 52% voted for Trump.
You seem to be one of those people who imagines the names of logical fallacies are magical chants, words of power that deflect attacks on the positions you espouse. They are not. Nothing in my comment mis-states your position. I simply follow up its clear implications. These are worth restating. Your assertion that less than half of white women voted for Trump (which is true given that only about half the adult populace voted) has meaning only if the views of those who did not vote differs from the views of those who did. An entire industry is based on accurate predictions of group behavior and attitudes from discovery of what a quite small portion of that group thinks or does. When the sample size is on the order of half the target group, it is ludicrous to pretend the reading is not accurate for the whole. Whatever affliction is indicated by having cast a vote for Trump in 2016, a least half of white women in this country suffer from it.