Sunday, October 26, 2008
Sexism vs. Racism
As I was watching MSNBC this afternoon, they interviewed a couple of women, both democrat and republican, and most of them said that the news media (that "liberal media elite") was being unfair and sexist toward Sarah Palin. In addition to this, at a Palin rally in Florida today Elizabeth Hasselbeck (co-host of The View) stated this about the reports on Palin's clothing, “Now, with everything going on in the world, seems a bit odd,” Hasselbeck said. “But let me tell you, this is deliberately sexist.”
First off, let me just state that some of the treatment Palin has been getting is a bit sexist, just like when Hilary Clinton was running there were some sexist moments. One example of the sexist treatment Palin has taken is when her daughter was discovered to be pregnant people said instead of pursuing higher office she should be at home taking care of her children. As the son of a single parent I know that a woman can do more than just one thing at a time, and no one would've asked a man a question like that, why isn't Obama taking care of his two daughters, that would be a good question for him.
But, here is my problem, when Palin is questioned about the RNC spending $150,000 on clothing for her (which is more than the cost of Joe the Plumbers house) it's sexist, but when she suggests that Obama doesn't see America "the way WE do," or that he pal's around with terrorist, when we know people think he's Arab, or constantly promotes the fact that this black man is "different than US," and then says nothing about the people at her rallies throwing out racial epithets and threatening her own sound technician (who is a black man), it's not okay to say that she promotes peoples racist fears. The fact that she is all up in arms about sexism, but promotes and feed off of the racist rage of many (not all) of her supporters.
She's not doing it so much now (because it's not working nationally) but they were playing on peoples racist emotions in states like Virginia and Florida and western Pennsylvania. It's the "hockey moms" and "Joe six pack" vs. Barack HUSSEIN Obama, an Arab, Black, Muslim, terrorist, socialist. I mean seriously, who is Joe six Pack, no one in my neighborhood. Furthermore, the only hockey mom's I know where the one's at my all-white high school, and they were terrified to even live next door to a black family.
So, basically all I'm saying is people who live in a glass house shouldn't throw stones, because just like she has no sympathy or seemingly no care for the racism that has been thrown Obama'a way (which she has been egging on) she shouldn't expect anyone to have sympathy for the sexism that's being thrown her way.
First off, let me just state that some of the treatment Palin has been getting is a bit sexist, just like when Hilary Clinton was running there were some sexist moments. One example of the sexist treatment Palin has taken is when her daughter was discovered to be pregnant people said instead of pursuing higher office she should be at home taking care of her children. As the son of a single parent I know that a woman can do more than just one thing at a time, and no one would've asked a man a question like that, why isn't Obama taking care of his two daughters, that would be a good question for him.
But, here is my problem, when Palin is questioned about the RNC spending $150,000 on clothing for her (which is more than the cost of Joe the Plumbers house) it's sexist, but when she suggests that Obama doesn't see America "the way WE do," or that he pal's around with terrorist, when we know people think he's Arab, or constantly promotes the fact that this black man is "different than US," and then says nothing about the people at her rallies throwing out racial epithets and threatening her own sound technician (who is a black man), it's not okay to say that she promotes peoples racist fears. The fact that she is all up in arms about sexism, but promotes and feed off of the racist rage of many (not all) of her supporters.
She's not doing it so much now (because it's not working nationally) but they were playing on peoples racist emotions in states like Virginia and Florida and western Pennsylvania. It's the "hockey moms" and "Joe six pack" vs. Barack HUSSEIN Obama, an Arab, Black, Muslim, terrorist, socialist. I mean seriously, who is Joe six Pack, no one in my neighborhood. Furthermore, the only hockey mom's I know where the one's at my all-white high school, and they were terrified to even live next door to a black family.
So, basically all I'm saying is people who live in a glass house shouldn't throw stones, because just like she has no sympathy or seemingly no care for the racism that has been thrown Obama'a way (which she has been egging on) she shouldn't expect anyone to have sympathy for the sexism that's being thrown her way.
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