Reply #28: You are assuming something I didn't say [View All]

[EffieBlack]

Please reread my post. I did not say that "the people here on DU who have a problem with voting on the basis of race or gender are the same people who 'apparently have never had a problem with the many other subjective criteria used to select a candidate.'"

I said I have a problem with people who never had a problem with other subjective criteria in the past but now quote - incompletely and out of context - Dr. King's "content of their character" line as the only acceeptable criteria - now that the subjective criteria might include a positive consideration of a black man's race or a woman's gender.

This was not directed at everyone on DU who objects to race or gender as a consideration. It clearly applied only to the hypocrites who want to change the rules now that a minority and a female have taken the field.