Ladies and gentlemen your new incoming members of the 116th Congress. Notice anyting??

[HomerJS]

I'm not saying Democrats have to have 1 Muslim, 1 woman, 1 black, 1 gay, 1 native American or 1 bisexual. But isn't it nice to know the Democrats look more like the entire country, not just a bunch of white guys.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

nice job gop, you have more people named Dan than you do women as members-elect.
hmmm which group better represents America. It's too tough to call.

 

[sactoking]

Why do you have to make this about race, racist?

 

[IronWing]

When I started my career, professional meetings looked a lot like the upper photo (even had a pirate). They now look like the lower photo.

 

[Greenman]

If that's whats important to you, then yes, it is nice. I wouldn't have noticed if you hadn't pointed it out.
I'd also like to point out that the republicans elected a dead pimp to congress. The democrats don't have a dead guy or a pimp.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

If that's whats important to you, then yes, it is nice. I wouldn't have noticed if you hadn't pointed it out.

how the fuck could you not notice the difference in diversity between the two groups? wait, are you blind?

 

[shortylickens]

Saying that somebody HAS to be colored in order to be unbiased is actually quite biased and racist itself.

 

[brycejones]

Dems f'd up. Nobody is wearing an eye patch.

 

[Greenman]

how the fuck could you not notice the difference in diversity between the two groups? wait, are you blind?

I meant before I saw the picture.

 

[sactoking]

If that's whats important to you, then yes, it is nice. I wouldn't have noticed if you hadn't pointed it out.
I'd also like to point out that the republicans elected a dead pimp to congress. The democrats don't have a dead guy or a pimp.

Assuming you're referencing Dennis Hof and not some other dead pimp, they did not. He was elected to the state Legislature and not Congress. And in reality his very rural Republican Assembly district actually elected "A Republican to be named later" given how Nevada's process works.

 

[UberNeuman]

It’s a whiter shade of fail.

lol.

 

[interchange]

Do Democrats have an eye patch? I don't effin think so!

 

[Greenman]

Assuming you're referencing Dennis Hof and not some other dead pimp, they did not. He was elected to the state Legislature and not Congress. And in reality his very rural Republican Assembly district actually elected "A Republican to be named later" given how Nevada's process works.

My bad. I knew it was state level and promptly forgot. My apologies to all for misleading you.

But it reads so well when stated incorrectly, couldn't we just over look the glaring error and enjoy the insanity of it? Being able to write that really is a once in a lifetime opportunity. I'll never get a chance to say that sentence again. Don't rob me of the dream.

 

[sandorski]

Sausage Fest v I'd Hit It

GOP is whiter than the new AT Forum!

 

[HomerJS]

If that's whats important to you, then yes, it is nice. I wouldn't have noticed if you hadn't pointed it out.
I'd also like to point out that the republicans elected a dead pimp to congress. The democrats don't have a dead guy or a pimp.

Its important to people who have been excluded from the top group for years.

But maybe we should go your way, its not important that our representatives reflect the entire country, just a monochromatic subset.

 

[Greenman]

Its important to people who have been excluded from the top group for years.

But maybe we should go your way, its not important that our representatives reflect the entire country, just a monochromatic subset.

I just don't pay attention, and I don't really care. I know that makes me racially insensitive, and I guess that's a bad thing to be, but I'm far more concerned with their actions than their skin color.

 

[Jhhnn]

Damned women are taking over the Democratic party! /s

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

But the Democrats are the *real* racists.

 

[alien42]

I just don't pay attention, and I don't really care. I know that makes me racially insensitive, and I guess that's a bad thing to be, but I'm far more concerned with their actions than their skin color.

That doesn't make you "racially insensitive", it reflects your white privilege and obliviousness of it. If you are actually far more concerned with their action than their skin color then you truly believe that non whites and women are inferior to white men.

 

[pcgeek11]

That doesn't make you "racially insensitive", it reflects your white privilege and obliviousness of it. If you are actually far more concerned with their action than their skin color then you truly believe that non whites and women are inferior to white men.

That makes no sense at all.

 

[cytg111]

Its the only way its gonna work. Look at where the GOP is now. Dead meat. Their only chance for power now is to steal it.

 

[Sunburn74]

If that's whats important to you, then yes, it is nice. I wouldn't have noticed if you hadn't pointed it out.
I'd also like to point out that the republicans elected a dead pimp to congress. The democrats don't have a dead guy or a pimp.

You didn't notice that one group is all middle aged white men whilst the other group is a mix of men and women of multiple age groups, sexes, and ethnicities? I don't have anything against middle aged white men, but am naturally anyone should be concerned about the proportions at play within the GOP.

 

[ecogen]

I just don't pay attention, and I don't really care. I know that makes me racially insensitive, and I guess that's a bad thing to be, but I'm far more concerned with their actions than their skin color.

You should be paying attention and you should care. The fact that a party elects white men 90% of the time should be alarming.

 

[cytg111]

I just don't pay attention, and I don't really care. I know that makes me racially insensitive, and I guess that's a bad thing to be, but I'm far more concerned with their actions than their skin color.

At least you are aware of it.

 

[HomerJS]

I just don't pay attention, and I don't really care. I know that makes me racially insensitive, and I guess that's a bad thing to be, but I'm far more concerned with their actions than their skin color.

The fact that you think this is all about race shows you really don't get it.

 

[pmv]

Glancing at that picture, seems the Republicans do have at least one visible disability (the eyepatch fellow). So there's that.

And in theory I don't really agree with the emphasis on the personal demographic traits of individuals at the top. Just having the 'right' skin-color or the 'right' genitalia doesn't help if your policies are awful or you put your membership of the ruling elites above all other considerations anyway. That's what I would say is the 'bad' kind of identity-politics, the stress on individual characteristics over structural change. And not all forms of disadvantaged status are visible anyway.

But I can't avoid admitting that it's not a coincidence that all but one of the Republicans are white men and that it's not as if their policies are any better than their demographics.