Please tell me why I shouldn't be offended.

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16. are you trying to say "all lives matter"?

speaking as an old white guy as well, yeah, i get the idea that it would be nice to look past race and gender entirely, and maybe in another 400 years we'll get there as a society.

but for now, race matters, gender matters, and the established historical patterns of discrimination matter.

that means that refusing to vote for a black candidate for president because he's black or a female president because she's female is *not* the same thing as refusing to vote for a white male candidate for president because he's white and male.

personally, i'm not ruling anyone out, certainly not biden, i think he'd make a great president. but at the same time, getting a woman behind the resolute desk gives us a certain progress as a society that no man can offer (though the man can certainly offer progress in other ways).

i don't think people should rule anyone out purely on the basis of being a white male, but it's not at all the same thing as the fights you had re obama or hillary.

it just isn't.