Beyond Unacceptable (UPDATED)
For some reason, I simply didn’t see this coming. Maybe I should have, but not being much of a watcher of Fox News, my understanding of the channel was that its success as a catapult for right wing narratives stems from it’s veneer of respectability.
Again, forgive me for being wrong, I don’t actually watch the thing.
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There is a line that separates support and obsession. That same line acts as the boundary between activism, and self destructive action. This line is etched in anger, and what ultimately decides which side you are on is your ability to control that anger.
Sphere: Related Content“An Act of Criminal International Misogyny”
Via Feminist Peace Network, The Nation recently published a blistering speech from former UN AIDS envoy (and current co-director of AIDS-Free World) Stephen Lewis that highlights the lackluster, indifferent international response to endemic rape and sexual violence against women in the Congo.
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This is my contention with the Right’s war on law suits; occasionally, they’re necessary.
Oh “Boy”
Josh Marshall, on a topic unrelated to what I’m about to talk about, produces what I think is a very sane concept when we look at our usage of language, and language’s potential to offend.
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Chauvinism And The Democratic Primary
The Telegraph is reporting that Hillary Clinton is attempting to portray calls for her to step down from the Democratic nomination race as an act of mass chauvinism. Now, typically, I take what the Telegraph has to say about anything with a grain of salt, but while this piece may or may not be true in regards to Senator Clinton herself, it cannot be ignored that there are more than a bare few who have regarded such calls as only possible under acts of sexism.
I must beg to differ.
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Well, the weekend is here after what, at least to me, seemed like a particularly grueling week. It’s time for us to relax a little from the every day grind, and what better way than with a conversation that goes outside the box a little bit?
Sphere: Related ContentIs It Enough?
Last night, Senator Clinton did what she seems rarely inclined to do and actually apologized for the racially charged comments that have come from her campaign through this overly long and painful primary season. Specifically, she apologized for the particularly tone deaf comments from her husband in South Carolina, as well as those made by Geraldine Ferraro which have sparked a firestorm among the press and among many Democratic voters.
But the question remains, is this enough?
Sphere: Related ContentRight Message, Wrong Wrapping
Bob Herbert’s piece in the New York Times poses something of a difficult challenge for me; how does one criticize something that one largely agrees with? 99% of Herbert’s piece is exactly right, it’s just the opening 1% that has me at odds.
A better person would be able to get past it pretty quickly, forgive him the slight, and move on. I’m just finding that I’m not able to do that so easily.
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More evidence of satire’s untimely demise:
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Quote Of The Day: High-Brow Panty-Sniffing
The goal of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy isn’t merely to win — it’s to make the public feel that any Democrat who might attain real power is someone no decent person should associate with, someone we should cross the street to avoid, someone whose intentions and goals are dangerous — if not unspeakable. That’s the message being spread right now about Hillary Clinton in these linked communications. She is a lesbian agent of terror. Her vagina will get us all killed.
- Steve M., nailing it.
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Since last Tuesday’s debate, I have found myself utterly dismayed, though not entirely shocked, at the way the spin has spun regarding the attacks on Hillary Clinton. Hillary supporters in particular, but virtually the rest of the news media by proxy, has turned what was initially a referendum on Hillary Clinton’s character and trustability into a battle over whether the attacks were sexist or not.
The “pile-on” politics retort offered by the Clinton campaign to what was undoubtedly the frontrunner’s single worst performance of the primary season has, in the end, taken an already uneven playing field and skewed the landscape even further.
Sphere: Related ContentHillary’s Electability & Sexism
A question that has been weighing on me and that I’ve been meaning to raise here for a while is - what value should we, as liberals, place on electability in determining whether to support Hillary for President when we know one factor that adversely affects her electability is sexism?
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