From Feministing: -NEW PAC ASKS MEDIOCRE WHITE MEN RUNNING FOR OFFICE: “CAN YOU NOT?”- Reeeaaaallllyyy noooww?

Through our diligent efforts here at Press Releases, we have found a horrible news story to break apart.

“There is an epidemic of overly confident, under qualified white dudes crowding out America’s elections.”

No. What is happening is that PEOPLE even if it just so happens to be more men than woman are EXERCISING a right to run for office as they can and will continue to do so. As for the qualifications of candidates, such things are the concern of the type office spot being run for and the masses of voters to decide who is and isn’t ‘qualified’.

“So explains the Can You Not PAC, recently created to “dis/empower and dis/incline” the powerful and privileged (“specifically straight white men”) to lose their outsized ego and swollen sense of entitlement — and not run for office.”

The only thing ‘swollen’ is the the bloated thought process used to come up with such an illogical point as you have just now. and to spew the same routine buzz words we have heard again and again? come on! WHERE IS THE A MATERIAL?

“There is a tsunami of mediocre white men running for office. Our self-inflating sense of ability and talents has convinced many of us to run in the face of overwhelming empirical evidence that we are in fact not the most qualified. We’re fighting back against the notion that looking like a Ken doll is a qualification for elective office.”

Seems to be a tsunami of mediocre points being spun over and over in such an underwhelming unimpressive fashion about why people should run for office. Just more fluff tsk tsk tsk.

“Started “by white men, for white men,” the Can You Not PAC is meant to complement existing organizations, like EMILY’s List, that support women, people of color, and LGBTQ folks running for office, by telling white men to take a step back. The PAC’s advisory board — made up of progressive women, LGBTQ folks, and people of color — will be issuing endorsements and (dis)endorsements in the upcoming November election, with the aim of defeating mediocre white dudes and elevating candidates from marginalized communities.”

Good. The first semi-decent point made so far in this lackluster horribly opinionated article with a clear bias. While we here at Press Releases do encourage everyone who wants to run for a position in office for government to do so, We do not condone pushing one sex or race out to ‘make room’ for others. A fair race for office is one where everyone who wants to run and can competes and is elected by the people and the electoral system in place.

What this shows is that less woman and/or minorities are RUNNING for office, as in putting in the hard effort file to run and to connect with the voters and show them why they should vote for you. This is an entirely different problem and asking people who do run to not do won’t change anything…

“What I appreciate about the PAC — which was started as a joke but is now “100% serious!” — is its recognition that allyship/solidarity/living one’s progressive politics demands more than nominal support of a candidate from an underrepresented community. As the PAC’s creators told MSNBC, “We know of groups that are doing such great work recruiting women and people of color and LGBT people. And we know white men who will give donations to those groups while simultaneously running against them in primaries.” In a world rife with sexism and racism, in which our successes and failures are shaped by systems working for or against us, the Can You Not PAC declares it’s on the powerful and privileged to reflect on the ways in which they advance through the world — and then to do something (meaningful and substantive and probably difficult) about it. I wonder how the PAC’s thesis might apply to folks outside of electoral politics — say, in academia or law or business. What might our responsibility as mediocre white people, or overconfident, under-qualified cis dudes, look like there?”

Again. Your trying to push the same points as above that have already been smashed to pieces and any person with half a brain would see all your doing different in this paragraph is using the PAC as a crutch to make your bias look good.

While I genuinely don’t have any easy answers here, I’m grateful for Can You Not’s intervention.

Maybe you, too, know a handsome upwardly mobile upper-middle class cis dude who is well intentioned and *super progressive.* We’re happy go buy him a locally brewed craft beer and tell him to take a step back instead. We are not the heroes that Gotham needs.

Did you really just use a Batman reference after using more buzzwords to push your agenda as an end point? That might just be the weakest and most low quality push you have made in this whole article. Ironically, it is also the last part too. Guess you wanted to end on a low note.

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Original article: http://feministing.com/2016/05/05/new-pac-asks-mediocre-white-men-running-for-office-can-you-not/

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