Comment on A Black woman has never lost the general election for POTUS in US history but 46 white men have lost
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s equally valid to say that a black woman has lost the election every time.
Comment on A Black woman has never lost the general election for POTUS in US history but 46 white men have lost
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s equally valid to say that a black woman has lost the election every time.
caden@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
Not really, since in most (all?) U.S. presidential elections to date there has not been a black woman on the ballot. The equal but opposite statement to the OP would be that a black woman has never won the election, which is true.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Read the wiki article. If a black woman has never been on the ballot then every possible statement you make beginning with “for all black women who have ever been on the ballot…” is true.
caden@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
Yes, because now you’ve added the critical qualifier “who have ever been on the ballot”. Without that, it doesn’t hold.