@jeffw@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • edit-22 months agoA Black woman has never lost the general election for POTUS in US history but 45 white men have lostmessage-square79fedilinkarrow-up1570arrow-down165
arrow-up1505arrow-down1message-squareA Black woman has never lost the general election for POTUS in US history but 45 white men have lost@jeffw@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • edit-22 months agomessage-square79fedilink
minus-square@cadenlink4•edit-22 months agoYes, because now you’ve added the critical qualifier “who have ever been on the ballot”. Without that, it doesn’t hold. No black woman has ever won the election or lost the election, because the set of black women who have ever been on the ballot before is empty.
Yes, because now you’ve added the critical qualifier “who have ever been on the ballot”. Without that, it doesn’t hold.
No black woman has ever won the election or lost the election, because the set of black women who have ever been on the ballot before is empty.