2007-12-07 01:01:05 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
Yes, in fact it is bigotry.
If you vote or don't vote for someone based on their sex, religion, race then it is descrimination. We should vote based on the candidate's ability and the way he/she stands on issues and nothing else. To base your vote on race, religion or gender is discrimination and bigotry. That is the mentality of the KKK and not right thinking Americans.
2007-12-07 01:09:23 · answer #1 · answered by LDS girl 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Maybe, but then where do you draw the line? Is it discrimmination to use class, where someone went to school, honesty.
I do tend to discrimminate against people of little experience or that tend to be dishonest.
2007-12-07 01:43:01 · answer #2 · answered by G-gal 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is discrimination and there is nothing wrong with that!
If you want a male president then vote for one... if you want a woman president then vote for one...
With Voting, I discriminate against Rudy because he is too liberal for me...I would still respect him if I met him in person.
Voting is all about discriminating against all the candidates except the one that best suits your values or the one that you think is best for the nation.
Everyone here discriminates against people every day. I discriminate against child molesters because I don't want to put my daughter on the same street as one. I discriminate against politicians who lie or are hypocrites.
The candidate that is discriminated against the least is the winner.
2007-12-07 01:19:39 · answer #3 · answered by Eric T 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can discriminate against someone for what they may be, such as Black, Female, Hispanic, or White, (yes whites are discriminated against also), or because they look different.
But you cannot discriminate against someone who thinks different. Discrimination and disagreement are not the same thing. For example, the reason I'm not going to vote for Hillary Clinton is not because she is a woman. It is because I do not agree with here tax-and-spend plans, her socialist ideas, and I remember the record the Clinton's, (Bill and Hillary) built during his years as President.
2007-12-07 01:28:27 · answer #4 · answered by Grayrider 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You know what, discrimination is when you reject someone's status as a human being because of their race, sex, etc. Like when blacks had to use a separate bathroom and had to stand on the bus. Voting because of somone's religion, sex, or gender is dumb....but it's not discrimination.
2007-12-07 01:12:17 · answer #5 · answered by smellyfoot ™ 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't think gender matters, but religion does. And the reason religion matters is because I wouldn't vote for someone who practiced witchcraft or voodoo. Which are both considered religions nowadays.
And the majority of Americans wouldn't either.
2007-12-07 01:05:14 · answer #6 · answered by Big Bear 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
That's the definition, yes.
to make a distinction in favor of or against a person or thing on the basis of the group, class, or category to which the person or thing belongs.
So what? Party affiliation is a group or class upon which you discriminate.
2007-12-07 01:11:03 · answer #7 · answered by SDD 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, and there must NEVER BE protection for candidates being discriminated against for any reason in the voting booth.
2007-12-07 01:15:24 · answer #8 · answered by Sherilynne B 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
YES ,i think whole world should start a new world in which religion should have common things extracted from all religion and practically accepted by all communities .this new born religion should be named as universal religion and all the ethics should be followed by all for the harmony of whole world
2007-12-07 01:11:43 · answer #9 · answered by osho sai 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You can vote based on someone's hairstyle if you want. It's not discrimination.
2007-12-07 01:09:50 · answer #10 · answered by I Love Howie Carr 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋