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Anti-Clinton misogynists: If Bill’s attackers are “defenders of women,” why do they have a history of sexism?
Wow, that hits the nail on the head:
Donald Trump isn’t the only rather unusual self-appointed champion of women these days, as he runs around flinging accusations that Bill Clinton is an “abuser” of women and that this somehow makes Hillary Clinton, by the transitive property of marriage, an “abuser” as well. Trump is being aided in his mission by Roger Stone, an old-school dirty trickster and spooler of right-wing bullshit, who has declared that he will be hounding Clinton with accusations of sexual abuse and harassment as long as she dares to run for president.
Stone created the group Citizens United Not Timid (C.U.N.T.) to attack Hillary Clinton. Stone promoted the false story that there was a video of Michelle Obama making racist remarks about white people.
Robert Morrow has wished death on Hillary Clinton and written bizarre sexual writings about her, called Chelsea Clinton a “slut,” and posted about “*******” and “pro-faggot judicial activism” on social media. The book was dedicated to a holocaust denier who blames a “Jewish plot” for the 9/11 terror attacks.
One of the major reasons that these conservative activists want to keep Clinton out of office is they fear, with good reason, that she will protect reproductive rights, work for equal pay, and continue the Obama policy of fighting sexual assault on campus.
One of those truisms of the modern conservative movement is that racism basically ended in 1963, and therefore any modern accusations of racism amount to nothing more than liberals making stuff up in order to score political points. A corollary belief is that the only people who are victims of racial prejudice these days are white people, a belief that surfaces not just in the myth that there’s a tape out there of Michelle Obama saying anti-white things (there isn’t), but in high-profile Supreme Court cases where fears of this mythical “reverse racism” were used to undermine efforts, successfully in one case, toward racial integration in education.
What we’re seeing with Stone, Trump and company is the classic “swift boating” technique, which was named after a 2004 campaign to discredit John Kerry by falsely accusing him of not earning the Purple Heart and Silver Star that he got for service in Vietnam.
Kerry was up against George W. Bush, who had come under fire for not just being a warmonger, but doing so while having a history of evading service himself by joining the National Guard instead of going to Vietnam to fight in a war that he and his family supported. Conservatives were mad.
Anita Hill dared come forward and testify against Clarence Thomas, alleging that he had sexually harassed her when she was working under him at the EEOC. Even though Hill’s testimony did not prevent the Senate from confirming Thomas’ seat on the Supreme Court, later journalistic investigations made it clear that Hill was almost certainly telling the truth.
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We all know Republicans have a history of abuse against women. Isn't legislating a woman's body abuse. Any guys want their bodies legislated?
Republicans point to all the failed attacks on the Hillary Clinton as "proof" she must have done something. Otherwise, they wouldn't have attacked her. They attack everyone. Like I said, Republicans have started a new religion they call Christianity. Only the name is the same. But they follow none of the policies that make Christianity a great religion. Clearly, they have no problem attacking women, gays or other minorities. They have no problem with lying. Let the sick die and so on.
Wow, that hits the nail on the head:
Donald Trump isn’t the only rather unusual self-appointed champion of women these days, as he runs around flinging accusations that Bill Clinton is an “abuser” of women and that this somehow makes Hillary Clinton, by the transitive property of marriage, an “abuser” as well. Trump is being aided in his mission by Roger Stone, an old-school dirty trickster and spooler of right-wing bullshit, who has declared that he will be hounding Clinton with accusations of sexual abuse and harassment as long as she dares to run for president.
Stone created the group Citizens United Not Timid (C.U.N.T.) to attack Hillary Clinton. Stone promoted the false story that there was a video of Michelle Obama making racist remarks about white people.
Robert Morrow has wished death on Hillary Clinton and written bizarre sexual writings about her, called Chelsea Clinton a “slut,” and posted about “*******” and “pro-faggot judicial activism” on social media. The book was dedicated to a holocaust denier who blames a “Jewish plot” for the 9/11 terror attacks.
One of the major reasons that these conservative activists want to keep Clinton out of office is they fear, with good reason, that she will protect reproductive rights, work for equal pay, and continue the Obama policy of fighting sexual assault on campus.
One of those truisms of the modern conservative movement is that racism basically ended in 1963, and therefore any modern accusations of racism amount to nothing more than liberals making stuff up in order to score political points. A corollary belief is that the only people who are victims of racial prejudice these days are white people, a belief that surfaces not just in the myth that there’s a tape out there of Michelle Obama saying anti-white things (there isn’t), but in high-profile Supreme Court cases where fears of this mythical “reverse racism” were used to undermine efforts, successfully in one case, toward racial integration in education.
What we’re seeing with Stone, Trump and company is the classic “swift boating” technique, which was named after a 2004 campaign to discredit John Kerry by falsely accusing him of not earning the Purple Heart and Silver Star that he got for service in Vietnam.
Kerry was up against George W. Bush, who had come under fire for not just being a warmonger, but doing so while having a history of evading service himself by joining the National Guard instead of going to Vietnam to fight in a war that he and his family supported. Conservatives were mad.
Anita Hill dared come forward and testify against Clarence Thomas, alleging that he had sexually harassed her when she was working under him at the EEOC. Even though Hill’s testimony did not prevent the Senate from confirming Thomas’ seat on the Supreme Court, later journalistic investigations made it clear that Hill was almost certainly telling the truth.
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We all know Republicans have a history of abuse against women. Isn't legislating a woman's body abuse. Any guys want their bodies legislated?
Republicans point to all the failed attacks on the Hillary Clinton as "proof" she must have done something. Otherwise, they wouldn't have attacked her. They attack everyone. Like I said, Republicans have started a new religion they call Christianity. Only the name is the same. But they follow none of the policies that make Christianity a great religion. Clearly, they have no problem attacking women, gays or other minorities. They have no problem with lying. Let the sick die and so on.
