Josh Dehaas: The Democrats’ dilemma: Is a gay white man ‘oppressed’ enough?

There’s a debate among America’s left-leaning voters right now about who is qualified to be the Democratic presidential nominee. It has nothing to do with foreign policy, health care or the Green New Deal. It’s not about who has the best CV or who can knock out Trump. No.

It should go without saying, but the people obsessed with finding a candidate who isn’t a “SWM” — single white male — are missing the point: privilege and oppression are contextual. Just because you belong to one, two or even three historically marginalized groups, it does not mean that you as, an individual, have been victimized. In fact, none of the Democrats running for president have been “oppressed” as the term is normally understood.

Consider Harris. She has a Jamaican-American father and an Indian-American mother, which is proof enough for some on the left that she’s been a victim of racial and gender discrimination. But look closer at her background and it’s obvious that race and gender weren’t much of an impediment. She didn’t rise up out of a ghetto and overcome the odds. Harris’s father was a Stanford University economics professor and her mother was a breast cancer researcher at McGill University in Montreal.

Same story with Booker, who is African-American. His parents were executives at IBM and he grew up in Harrington Park, N.J., where the median household income is US$137,000. That’s about four times the median income in Newark, N.J., the predominantly African-American city where he went on to serve as mayor. Booker went to Stanford University, Oxford and Yale law — all of which have affirmative action programs that favour minorities.

The fact that this question is even being asked demonstrates how obsessed liberals are with identity politics and how naive they are to think that it matters. The sole criterion is how qualified and capable the individual is of doing the job. Nothing else matters.

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