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The Right Wing's Unbelievable Hatred Of Michelle Obama

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Charleston Chew11/15/2011 3:46:56 pm PST

re: #23 elizajane

I’d like to suggest that the misogyny is actually more powerful than the racism and that if Hilary Clinton had won the nomination & presidency, the comments about her would have been just as bad — they already were during the primaries, in case you’ve forgotten. Whereas it actually took the right a while to come up with some lines about Obama that didn’t sound too obviously racist (ie., he’s foreign, he’s Muslim, etc.). There is no social stigma attached to even the most virulent misogyny on the right, whereas racism does have to wear a (white) cloak.

I’m not picking sides on the “Who has it harder?” question, but I am concerned with an minority’s ability to defend themselves from the “tyranny of the majority”.

Black people are only 13% of the population. Women are 51%, which puts them in a much better position to defend themselves in our society. (And is also why references to women as a “minority” really annoy me.)