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I mean, technically, kind of, yes, in the sense of ... bringing a hand grenade to an arm wrestling match... does ensure your opponent ... won't win...
What's the old LBJ line?
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
Uh pretty much yep, just insert any sufficiently maligned minority group in the place of black americans, and this still holds up as a fundamental principle of American politics, 60ish years later.