Oh yeah no, I’m not arguing we shouldnt; we should. I’m not even saying it was a particularly significant factor, but it’s naive at best to think there was no impact. I’m arguing US Americans are largely racist and sexist because of all the overwhelming historical cultural racism and sexism more or less built into the foundations of this country. We should strive to be better, but we should be realistic about what and who we are. It’s not a pretty picture. We elected Donald Trump twice. And it wasn’t republicans that got him elected, it was the rest of us letting them. And all that aside I’m sure we could all find dozens of examples of more qualified women and POC losing out to less qualified white men. We had to make laws because of that shit. Racism and misogyny absolutely without doubt affected Hillary and Kamala’s chances. It’s incredibly naive to think otherwise. Three administration has spent the last year and a half rolling back protections for women and minorities pretty much entirely due to sexism and racism; I’m not off base here. Also if everyone here can actually read you’ll all realize I never said it was the most important or primary deciding factor. OP said it had no effect whatsoever and this is America so that is bullshit, so I called that out. I never said how significant a factor it was, just that it’s stupid to discount how racist and sexist the average American is because of our generally racist and sexist society.

The genocide thing wasn’t a significant reason though, that just kept the group that mostly doesn’t vote anyway from voting. Also anyone that didn’t vote for that reason is fucking dumb because they defacto chose more genocide with Trump.