This.

[bana05]

This Is Your Nation on White Privilege

This part especially

White privilege is being able to convince white women who don’t even agree with you on any substantive issue to vote for you and your running mate anyway, because all of a sudden your presence on the ticket has inspired confidence in these same white women, and made them give your party a “

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[box_in_the_box]

"But also, the MSM keeps forgetting this contest is not against a black man and a white woman; it is against a half black man and a white man."

They've forgotten that because both sides of the campaign have forgotten it. Even white male conservatives who a) had no plans to vote for McCain before and b) would oppose a female candidate under any other circumstances? Even THEY wish that Palin was running for PRESIDENT, rather than vice president. NOBODY in the GOP is promoting, or even MENTIONING, McCain anymore, because all the social conservatives and evangelicals see McCain as NOTHING more than opening the door to a Palin presidency in 2012. And while a LOT of that is to do with racist fears about Obama, I'd argue that even MORE of it is based in the GOP's almost ALL-ENCOMPASSING hatred of McCain. I mean, no shit, even now that he's sold his soul to the religious right, they SERIOUSLY despise McCain, for no other reason than the fact that liberals once LIKED him. So OF COURSE these same people love Palin, because liberals can't

[kali921]

"All-encompassing hatred of McCain"? They just nominated the man as their official candidacy for the Presidency of the United States. I don't think it's accurate that all Republicans hate McCain, because he's the official GOP candidate in this freakin' election.

[box_in_the_box]

All I have to say is, you need to talk to more Republicans.

Even among my GOP friends, I've never heard McCain referred to as anything nicer than a RINO ("Republican In Name Only"), which is precisely why the conservative base was so totally demoralized before Palin.

Part of the problem is that, in a LOT of primaries, you actually had Democrats and independents registering as Republicans to vote for McCain (including at the Washington state caucuses I covered, in which several voters flat-out told me that this was what they were doing), while the more conservative-favorite candidadtes never caught on

[kali921]

That's...a whole lotta capslock there.

Oh, I've no doubt that some Republicans hate McCain, based on the very things you cite above. But I'll never be convinced that ALL of them hate him, though, judging by the priceless sound bytes I get assaulted with every day in the media showing just plain old folks from *insert state here* talking about how they want their War Heroâ„¢ to be president.

What I worry is that they hate McCain less than they hate Obama. Because then they'll vote for McCain, and man, I don't want to duck my head in shame for another four years because some batshit crazy right wint nut and his even more batshit crazy Veep pick is in the White House.

Sarah Palin and her charging rape victims for rape kits. How can ANY woman vote for her and hope to retain any kind of intellectual or moral credibility?

[kali921]

Because all the grief black people have gotten for "voting for Obama simply because he's black", and no similar grief for white women voting for Palin because she has the same lady parts really grates my nerves.

That's interesting. I see white women who profess to switching parties solely to vote for Palin getting bashed all the time. Granted, I'm in a very liberal part of the country, that being San Francisco, where no self-respecting person would say "I'm a Democrat but I'm voting for McCain/Palin because I'm white and/or a woman" and hope to escape with anything less than having a red hot poker shoved up their ass and/or a sound beating by enraged drag queens and their het fan clubs and other diverse and sundry agglomerations of the local citizenry, but a cursory look at even places on LJ like ontd_political, which is interesting because you get an Insta Snapshot of the Zeitgeist, shows that white women who are voting for Palin because she's a white women are getting heaps and heaps of scorn

[bana05]

I mean in the media, not in various smaller groups.

[kali921]

Yeah, that's what I thought you might. And yes, I agree - the double standard is glaring and horrific.

Thank you for the links, btw - I'd seen the Salon.com article, but the Stewart clip is priceless. :-)

[bana05]

The Stewart clip is the definition of fantastical.

[biichan]

That article is awesome and completely fucking true.

[bana05]

Well, it always takes someone white and with a peen to make the very same point a PoC/WoC has been making since cognitive skills had formed.

[biichan]

Yeah. Which really kind of sucks.

I linked it to ontd_political. Response was mostly favorable last night, though I haven't checked since I got up this morning.

I should go check though. Obama was on Good Morning America and I want to hear about what I slept through.

ETA: No clips of Good Morning America are up, but there are a LOT more comments on my repost of this there. Not to mention quite a few butthurt people. Oh joy.

[bana05]

yes. i'm staying out of it lol

[moondancerdrake]

Anyone that votes for Palin (enviromental antichrist) because she has a vagina doesn't have a lick of sense to begin with. I can only hope the trophy VP tactic will blow up in McCain's face.