--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <r...@...> wrote: <snip> > OK, that's pretty clear, and the points in the article > below are well put, and you've posted examples of > indisputable sexism against Hillary but please remind > me, how did Obama "complicitly allow" sexism against > Hillary? Should he have regularly chastised the bloggers > during the campaign?
Bloggers and the media and his surrogates and supporters, yes, indeed. He couldn't have stopped it entirely, but he could have made it forcefully known that he found it unacceptable and wanted it to stop. > I received a lot of racist stuff during the campaign > and still do. Doctored photos of the White House lawn > turned into a watermelon patch, and stuff like that. Rick, for goodness sake, do you really not recognize the difference? The sexism was right up front, out in the open, all over television and the newspapers, all over otherwise respectable lefty blogs. Racism from *other Democrats* was mostly under the table, furtive. When racism against Obama was reported in the media, it was with disgust and scorn and outrage. Anyone who made an even faintly racist remark on the same lefty blogs that were full of open sexism against Hillary was anathematized. And of course the absolute *nadir* of the Obama campaign was its attempt to paint the Clintons as racists. You've seen even on FFL how some attempt to portray Hillary supporters as racists, along with the incredibly sexist attacks on us. Racism is no longer, thank goodness, publicly acceptable in this society. But sexism still is. And unlike racism, sexism is not primarily the province of the right wing. That was the real shocker, that so-called progressives, who are supposed to be for women's rights, hadn't the slightest problem indulging in it. And with Palin, we saw it coming almost *exclusively* from the left. Racism and sexism in the primary campaign simply aren't equivalent.
