• Nomecks@lemmy.ca
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      5 months ago

      Statistically it probably wasn’t 45 men by today’s definition.

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          5 months ago

          what are you talking about? racist? I think they’re saying that since ~2% of the population identifies as trans and more are probably eggs, we likely had one trans president before, but they weren’t out to the public, or perhaps even themselves.

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            I read it as him making a reference to black people being legally considered to be 3/5ths of a man back when the united states was founded. So if you go by those definitions, Obama wouldn’t have added up to “1”.

            Which is why I said thats pretty racist.

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      facepalm thanks, fixed the titled

      Edit: I’m still wrong. But this was a shower thought. There’s a reason this community isn’t called “well thought out comments”

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        Don’t correct that. He’s wrong. It’s way more than 46, most multi-term presidents defeated several different contenders.

        Edit: I got 63 white men and 1 white woman, not counting pre 12th amendment elections, not counting minor candidates who didn’t win any states electors. There’s a lot more if you include minor candidates, but then one of them would be Cynthia McKinney who is a black woman.