Hillary Clinton Is Held to a Higher Standard on Race Because She's a Woman

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​The #WhichHillary hashtag questions whether Clinton has really changed in 20 years, but the same could be asked of Bernie Sanders.

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[fishphile]

YES.

[msgrottesca]

Yep, she has an extensive history of this shit that really can not be overlooked in good conscience.

[headcaseheidi]

thank you. jesus.

[fishphile]

Except we don't have to go back 20 years to look at Hillary or her campaign being racist as fuck.

I do think we should bop Bernie on that crime bill vote.

Bernie has some troubling issues with race in his home state, but he didn't purposely say this: "Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed Wednesday to continue her quest for the Democratic nomination, arguing she would be the stronger nominee because she appeals to a wider coalition of voters -- including whites who have not supported Barack Obama in recent contests.

"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."

Bill saying this in South Carolina: Said Bill Clinton today in Columbia, SC: "Jesse Jackson won South Carolina in '84 and '88. Jackson ran a good campaign. And Obama ran a good

[sweetmizre]

The only bill I've been *personally* effected by is the war on crime bill that Sanders voted for.

I've also been effected by the welfare bill, though not to the same extent, but I don't think it is as bad as many people assume. When you live on it, get back to me.

I'm annoyed people are quick to defend his ass and take Hillary out over the same issue when she DID NOT EVEN VOTE ON THE DAMN BILL.

[moonshaz]

I'm annoyed people are quick to defend his ass and take Hillary out over the same issue when she DID NOT EVEN VOTE ON THE DAMN BILL.

THIS.

[horatios]

Most of this is drivel

[hikerpoet]

She has been more prominently in the spotlight for longer. In this case, there IS going to be a lot more public scrutiny of her. This is both a fact of life (and that aspect doesn't feel as gendered to me) but at the same time it does make me have more empathy for the stony-faced accusations, her defensiveness, and unlike others I do sense true evolution (my perception only) but I don't blame people for having major trust issues. But with more fame comes more attention.

His being so vocal is also a mixed bag. He uses it for a lot of good. He was the main politician around here calling out, say, all the bullshit with the Henry Louis Gates arrest, and I loved him for that. But he still hasn't acknowledged his major privilege in even being able to get away with the charming angry old grandpa schtick, nor how it can be seen as silencing.

[screamingintune]

I agree but the criticism of her has been very gendered since day one when she had the audacity to not be a quiet, smiling First Lady and you really can't divorce the sexism from a lot of said criticism.

and I think most politicians have evolved quite a bit in the last 20 years. Some of them because they really changed their positions, some of them because they measure their positions by taking the temperature of the electorate. Good example is Obama saying marriage is between a man and a woman in '08 and "evolving" to be pro-marriage equality. He was always pro-marriage equality, he'd written about it years before, but he like most Democratic politicians had to "evolve" with what they thought the electorate wanted. Which is just the cynical side of politics.

[hikerpoet]

Yes, exactly!

[moonshaz]

Agreed on all counts.