Then I challenge you to provide an outside source that supports your claim, because the links you provided do not do that. Those links addresses “men” (not straight white men) and white people (which also includes white women). Care to try again?
Are you serious? You genuinely think it's reasonably possible that the vast majority of white males in these reviews, polls and demographic studies
weren't straight? Despite the fact that one of my sources lists the total number of openly non-straight members of congress as
13.
In primary races, women and people of color perform as well or better than their white males but systemic factors sustain white male minority rule. Read our report.
wholeads.us
Do you know how demographics work?
The majority of people are white, so it make sense that the majority of politicians would be white also.
Again, you express a misunderstanding of demographics. You have acknowledged that white men (we'll leave out "straight" since it is fairly well documented that gay people are around 10% of the population, so their demographics can easily be accounted for) make up a MINORITY of the overall population, and yet they make up the MAJORITY of elected officials.
And your claim was that white men don't hold hegemonic power. That's the point. Despite being a LITERAL minority of the population, they hold THE MAJORITY of the power.
Let’s look at this a different way. Have you ever heard of the Congressional Black Caucus? According to their own website, they represent over 25% of the US population. Black people represent 12% of the US population, yet black politicians in Congress represent more than twice the population number, black people represent, Keeping in mind; all black caucus members are black, but not all black people that go to congress chooses to join the black caucus. IOW if we were to count all the black people in congress; including those who chose to not join the CBC, it would be even more.
The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) has been committed to using the full Constitutional power, statutory authority, and financial resources of the federal government to ensure that African Americans and other marginalized communities in the United States have the opportunity to achieve the...
cbc.house.gov
Which has absolutely no relevance whatsoever to the claim I'm making that straight, white men hold hegemonic power in America.
Also, I find it very interesting that just one post ago you completely ignored/disregarded the notion of demographic statistics and proportionality, but here you are apparently going pretty deep to desperately try and prove that one demographic groups a degree of disproportionate power
that isn't even a significant majority of power. So why is it that you specifically ignore all of these factors when it comes to demonstrating the obvious and easily demonstrable fact that straight, white men hold the vast majority - and a disproportionate amount -of power in the US, both economically and legislatively, but when it comes to trying to prove how much power
black legislators have you suddenly become an expert in demographic statistics?
I mean, seriously. Do you apply this exact same logic to the demographic of white, male lawmakers?
Never in the history of this country has any racial demographic accomplished these kind of numbers. Asians represent 5% of the US population but do Asian congressmen represent 10% of the US population? No. Mexicans represent 20% of the US population, but do Mexicans in congress represent 40% of the US population? Not even close. White people make up 65% of the US population; but do whites in Congress make up over 130% of the US population? Impossible.
Again, weird how you're suddenly aware of demographic proportional representation when a mere
one post ago you were completely ignoring the whole concept and dismissing the idea that straight, white men hold hegemonic power in America without any reference to how much power they hold in comparison to their proportion of the population, and now you're
positively obsessed with the proportional power of black legislators - something I have never once mentioned or contested.
Weird.
To suggest black people don’t have political power in this country is to ignore reality.
Good thing I never suggested it, then.
Yes! As I said before, majority/minority is about actual numbers.
So, you believe that when people use the phrase "minority groups", they are including yo-yo players? Bassoonists? Cartoonists?
The problem with your point is you took a majority group, (white)
Nope! I'm talking about
straight, white men, which is a demographic group you have openly acknowledged is a literal minority of the population (around 30%) and yet control the vast majority of positions of power in the USA. That's the point.
and you kept breaking it down in term of sexuality, and gender; till the group was no longer a majority.
Because, believe it or not, groups can be broken down like that. Almost as if certain members of a demographic (say, white women) can still hold a position of a minority in terms of hegemonic power structures, despite belonging to a group (white people broadly) that holds a greater degree of hegemonic power. Is this idea new to you?
I’ve never heard of them referring to straight black men either in reference to a minority group.
Correct. And do you understand why?
I understand that it is up to YOU to make it clear what you are talking about. If you want to use the term minority/majority in a way that has nothing to do with actual numbers, you need to make it clear;
Do I need to make it clear that the phrase "minority groups" isn't referring to kite enthusiasts? Giraffe impersonators? Experimental dancers?
are you talking about racial minority, sexual minority, religious minority, etc. etc. don’t just go using the term minority and expect me to know what you are talking about; if you mean something other than numbers.
I've already explained what it means. Repeatedly.
Quit being circular and answer the question. What traits makes a person a man?
I've said it multiple times. Identifying as a man. That's not circular.
