What If Sarah Palin Were Black?

[villainism]

Comments

[properly_stored]

What do you think? I agree with the general tenets in this article, but when I see Sarah Palin, I'm not ashamed she's white, I'm ashamed she's a woman.

Which is the point of the article. To be male is also considered the default, do you ever see people talking about the "male vote" or ask if men voted overwhelmingly for a male politician, only because they're male?

The opposite happens quite often.

[orbitaldiamonds]

True, though I heard a lot about the white male vote during the last Presidential election.

[arisma]

I LOATHE Sarah Palin but I've never focused that dislike on her being either white or a woman. My shame focuses on her being an American with an arguably strong force in our national discourse.

[mattie]

IAWTC.

[delia43]

This. Never crossed my mind. She's a shameful enough example of rampant Amurricanism without adding ethnicity or gender into it.

[beoweasel]

OW! I don't know who that insults more...though, they've made an effort to improve Sally's character since Civil War.

[box_in_the_box]

Actually, against all odds, it's more of an insult to Palin.

[celtic_thistle]

The impenetrable stupidity of Sarah Palin knows no boundaries. She wallows in mediocrity. Palin is the queen bee of a cult of personality where to be anti-intellectual is a trait to be rewarded. Ultimately, she presides over a confederacy of dunces.

Delicious.

I agree about white being "default." It's just another facet of white privilege that Palin's idiocy doesn't reflect on all white people.

[msloserrific]

" It's just another facet of white privilege that Palin's idiocy doesn't reflect on all white people."

Agreed.

[msloserrific]

Also wanted to add that because she's a woman, she doesn't get the privilege of having her idiocy not collectively represent women, at least not to everyone.

[ybfchic]

IA

[dazedpuckbunny]

--when I see Sarah Palin, I'm not ashamed she's white, I'm ashamed she's a woman.-- I agree. As a woman I cringe whenever Sarah opens her mouth and pretty much reaffirms what men think of women.

[nikoel]

Same here though it's mostly because she called herself a "pro-life feminist". It made me cringe for feminists everywhere.

[celtic_thistle]

ikr, of all the paradoxes.

[mercurychaos]

I think it's kind of sad that people still have to think about being "ashamed" when a woman or someone from a minority group does something stupid. I mean... if this applied to white men, we surely wouldn't have voted Bush in for a second term.