Matt Yglesias reminded me this morning of something that I had forgotten that I was ticked off about. The DNC website relaunched in June has a tab called "People" right in its top tool bar. When you mouseover the tab, the people options you are given are "African American, Asian Amer./Pacific Islanders, Disability Community" and so on. I questioned the wisdom of this approach to an acquaintance at the DNC right after the relaunch and got no response. Now David Ignatius has it in his column. As I said at the time, my first thought when I visited the new site was about my brother -- a New York City financial-type, white, straight, and non-disabled. And perhaps a more rabid Democrat than I am. But while I fit in at least two people categories, he fits in nowhere. Given that some people see the Democratic Party as less a coherent party and more a collection of special interests, it seems less than ideal to pick an organizational scheme that says, "yup, you're pretty much right about that."
