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She accuses women of voting for Clinton simply because of gender, but pens no response to the men who have voted for her, harking back to the stereotype that men are logical thinkers, and women are irrational and emotional. Why is it acceptable to call women out for voting for Clinton, but say nothing to the men who did? Were all women who voted for Clinton motivated by her gender, and the men motivated by her political views and campaign promises? If she’s going to continue playing such an immature game of blaming feminism for society’s problems, maybe she should make the jump and find a way to blame feminism for all the white men and women who voted for McCain, as well as all of the African Americans who were blinded by their race and voted for Obama.

Rebecca Walker hates the feminist movement and she hates empowered women. She blames it for everything that was wrong with her childhood, and she blames it for her terrible relationship with her mother. Why not blame it for her ambivalence regarding motherhood, or the way women voted in 2008? One can only imagine what else she’ll find to blame feminism for. Higher clothing prices because we dare to demand non-sweatshop clothing? Global warming because feminism encouraged us to be the women we wanted to be, so we used aerosol hairspray and put a hole in the o-zone layer? Really, Rebecca, let it go.

Hating the feminist movement from the inside does nothing to increase its effectiveness, no matter how you try to mask your hatred of other women and the movement.

Just like discriminating people on the basis of their skin, whether the discrimination is focused on Whites or POC, it’s still racist, not “reverse racist”

This same unwillingness to separate from privilege, by the way, is something that turned me off to Clinton — whether or not she knowingly fomented racism, she sure as hell benefited from it, and did nothing to call it out.

I believe Obama is rather brilliant and has a certain canny insight that is very important. But at heart, I’m an empiricist — I believe that you learn through trial and error, conjecture and refutation. I just don’t think that Obama has had enough chances to learn from mistakes, although I do think he’ll be a quick study once he makes them. But I feel like our country is so fucked up right now, and that makes me wary of voting for someone who may make political mistakes early on. But, I’ll still vote for him because John McCain scares the shit out of me. And if McCAin wins I’m moving to Canada or India or some other place.

especially if your physical features allow for you to pass as White.

Mine don’t.

otherwise being oblivious to racism

Except my dislike of Obama has nothing to do with his race. In fact I’m not the one who brings up his race. That would be you and all of the other supporters that can’t deal with the fact that some of us don’t think he is the right person for the job. So because you can’t deal with you have to call someone a racist. Calling someone a racist is obviously how you choose to win any disagreement.

He was one of the very very few, very very rare people in power who publically took a stand against the war.

Until he started measuring for drapes in the Whitehouse.

This is further underscored due to your prior comments on the “Bookends” post where your extremely one-sided and historically uncontextualized criticism of Abraham Lincoln leads me to believe you harbor some pro-Confederate sympathies. You sure sounded like the Pro-Confederate online commenters and Southern undergrads I’ve met who pine for the “Lost Cause”.

Only because you interpret not liking Lincoln or Obama as equal to supporting slavery or the Confederacy, which I do not do. These are two people who I think are given credit for the work of other people. Here in Illinois people talk about Lincoln as though he somehow was the only person who thought any of it was wrong. Read some of the speeches he gave when he was campaigning to pro-south crowds. He spoke out of both sides of his mouth.

Reality is that it was the nameless everyday people who truly put an end to slavery. there names may never get in a history book and maybe they never made speeches. They didn’t have to, they lived their beliefs by refusing to stand for injustice. If you can’t see that, that is you’re problem.