Striking Contrast Between Parties With Newly Elected Members of Congress

[Bourbon]

This portrait of newly elected members of Congress is striking. Of 31 new Republicans, just one is a woman. (There may be a 2nd if Young Kim wins in California). Nearly all the men are white.



Sheryl Gay Stolberg @SherylNYT

[Adolf_Twitler]

May have to install some more ladies bathrooms in the Congress Hall now! LOL!

[Cypress]

Is it just me, do the incoming GOP class of representatives basically look like a lily-white Klan meeting?

[cawacko]

Is it just me, do the incoming GOP class of representatives basically look like a lily-white Klan meeting?

Any group of white people are now Klan members? Really?

[reagansghost]

they actually reflect America's diversity

fat can pawns and toadies are on their way back under the rocks, but we've got a looong way to go

[reagansghost]

Any group of white people are now Klan members? Really?

nope, just the ones in Congress and on political forums

[evince]

Any group of white people are now Klan members? Really?

they are a pack of racists

[Into the Night]

Is it just me, do the incoming GOP class of representatives basically look like a lily-white Klan meeting?

The Democrats created the KKK. Stuff your bigotry and racism.

[Into the Night]

Any group of white people are now Klan members? Really?

Apparently to him it is. Only a racist bigot would make that kind of a turd remark.

[dukkha]

Any group of white people are now Klan members? Really?

according to Identity politics -yea. White people are awful and white males are evil according to PC politics

[Cypress]

according to Identity politics -yea. White people are awful and white males are evil according to PC politics

Our public institutions should generally approximately look like the America they represent.

But, I totally get why conservatives simply cannot see what is wrong with a Republican congress that in 95 percent white, and 85 percent male, or whatever.

[Superfreak]

Any group of white people are now Klan members? Really?

That is the rape apologists way of trying to bring others down to his pathetic level. He knows he is a cowardly piece of shit and he wants to project that on to others with yet another of his 'I'm so holy' rants.

[Cypress]

Any group of white people are now Klan members? Really?

Sorry, I am not responsible for your assumptions.

Not simply just white people.

White people who are known or suspected to support voter suppression of POC, support Donald Trump's bigotry and the "very fine" Nazis of Charlottesville, support the dilution of the Voting Rights Act, supported the racist Kenyan birth certificate nonsense, and have made it a life long habit to claim blacks only vote Democratic to "get free stuff".

[Superfreak]

Our public institutions should generally approximately look like the America they represent.

But, I totally get why conservatives simply cannot see what is wrong with a Republican congress that in 95 percent white, and 85 percent male, or whatever.

No moron. Our institutions should be filled with those individuals the people CHOOSE to elect to represent them. There are no quotas you fucking moron.

[dukkha]

Our public institutions should generally approximately look like the America they represent.

But, I totally get why conservatives simply cannot see what is wrong with a Republican congress that in 95 percent white, and 85 percent male, or whatever.

diversity of population isn't anywhere near as important as diversity of ideas. in fact the reason diversity became 'important' was because of a "wise Latina perspective"- even though Sotomayor rulings come from a pre-packaged partisan box-was to insure diversity of thought.

The problem with our politics isn't caused any lack of race or sex diversity, it's caused by hyper-partisanship