I’m a white guy and soo guilty of this. I’m immediately suspicious of white male politicians especially if they’re older and thus much more inclined to preemptively support a gay brown woman.
That said, I’m not convinced Platner is Fetterman 2.0 and I kinda feel attacked when people bring up his “questionable” post history because I would HATE for someone to define me by the dumb shit I posted before something clicked and I went hard left. My friend grew up in the southern sticks with opinions so bad, he’s too uncomfortable to discuss even now.
The biggest mark against him is the tattoo thing. I believe that he didn’t know what it meant at the time but I don’t believe no one told him in the X years since. Yet at the same time, I’m unconvinced that he kept it for any reason beyond laziness.
I’m a white guy and soo guilty of this. I’m immediately suspicious of white male politicians especially if they’re older and thus much more inclined to preemptively support a gay brown woman.
That said, I’m not convinced Platner is Fetterman 2.0 and I kinda feel attacked when people bring up his “questionable” post history because I would HATE for someone to define me by the dumb shit I posted before something clicked and I went hard left. My friend grew up in the southern sticks with opinions so bad, he’s too uncomfortable to discuss even now.
The biggest mark against him is the tattoo thing. I believe that he didn’t know what it meant at the time but I don’t believe no one told him in the X years since. Yet at the same time, I’m unconvinced that he kept it for any reason beyond laziness.