PS - Discussion question: Whaddya think of McCain’s Veep? That choice was rather unexpected. Pragmatic or pandering?
Not unexpected, in retrospect. And yes, pandering, but thus is most of politics. I see it as an attempt to, for one, balance out McCain platform with a more conservative platform; for another, to try and "pick up" some would-be-Hillary Clinton voters via a female VP nomination. The former is how VP picks work, really, and doesn't surprise me one whit. The latter is sad, but not surprising either; mostly, though, I hope it fails. I hope it fails because the two women are alike only in that they are women. It's sexism of the most essential sortthat an individual is entirely defined, labeled, and preferred or discriminated against on the basis of one factor: their gender and sex.
Hopefully, those that supported Hillary Clinton did so for more reasons than her gender alone. Hopefully, those that would love to see a women in a position of power (and I am one of them), want that woman to be worthy of the office. The goal shouldn't be to raise a discriminated individual to a position of power. The goal should be to make it so that the individual isn't subject to discrimination at allto make it so that the factors of discrimination, from gender to race to sexuality, are no longer factors at all.
Not unexpected, in retrospect. And yes, pandering, but thus is most of politics. I see it as an attempt to, for one, balance out McCain platform with a more conservative platform; for another, to try and "pick up" some would-be-Hillary Clinton voters via a female VP nomination. The former is how VP picks work, really, and doesn't surprise me one whit. The latter is sad, but not surprising either; mostly, though, I hope it fails. I hope it fails because the two women are alike only in that they are women. It's sexism of the most essential sortthat an individual is entirely defined, labeled, and preferred or discriminated against on the basis of one factor: their gender and sex.
Hopefully, those that supported Hillary Clinton did so for more reasons than her gender alone. Hopefully, those that would love to see a women in a position of power (and I am one of them), want that woman to be worthy of the office. The goal shouldn't be to raise a discriminated individual to a position of power. The goal should be to make it so that the individual isn't subject to discrimination at allto make it so that the factors of discrimination, from gender to race to sexuality, are no longer factors at all.
Ah, I ramble. But those are my thoughts.
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