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Jeremiah Johnson's avatar

To get overly analytical about a jokey comment - what's wild to me is that people don't see "not being racist" as a qualification. Not saying your quip in particular, but I've had conversations on twitter where people told me "They should be able to have any belief as long as it doesn't hinder their ability to do their job"

Technical ability is not what really matters at high levels of government! I don't care if he's a cracked coder if he doesn't have wisdom and moral clarity about basic things like 'treat people equally'. He's not flipping a burger, he's controlling complex systems that impact hundreds of millions of people! There's no way to do that in a fair and upstanding way if you're racist!

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