I hate to do this to AKA Smith but she has trucked out her single example of someone calling her a racist just because she supports Clinton one time too often. Here is the precise post to which she refers (abbreviated slightly to include only the relevant):

To snub or Not to Snub

Usually, I like AKA Smith, but I am sick to death of the discussion of this supposed snub. Maybe he's pissed at her; so what. He's a human being. Maybe instead of the fake-assery the Clinton's espouse he's willing to show when he's actually upset with someone rather than using Rovian techniques to nip at their heels. Or maybe he's an immature asshole.

AkA, I could say that the reason why you don't "trust" Obama is because he's a black man. I could make that arguement. Not because he's immature, or because of his slightly different take on the issues than Hillary Clinton, but because when you look at him (your words) his blackness offends you which your subconcious mind turns into the more socially responsible term, mistrust. I, however, don't think that's the case, but I don't know your innner workings. Just like I don't know the inner workings of Obama when he "snubbed." Clinton. Or Clinton's inner workings. I don't expect to know the soul of the president; all I want is someone competent who will have the best interests of the country in mind and not his or her little coteire of friends, special interest groups, and future historical laurels.

I haven't read through all of the letters, but AkA Smith's point by point discussion of each eye flick, head turn, etc during a 2-second exchange was really getting on my nerves. It's like tabloid journalism applied to something much more important than whether Britney Spears is wearing panties.

I, still don't know who I'm going to vote for in the primary, but I'm getting pretty sick of both sides going at each other like rabid dogs and taking everything so goddamn personally. Obama and Clinton included. Maybe I'll just opt out and vote for McCain, and worry about the democrats when the big election comes.

-- stackey-dackey

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Permalink Wednesday, January 30, 2008 08:36 AM

This post by stacky-dackey was in response to AKA's (continuing) tendency to find sexism in any argument for Obama or in Obama himself. This thread had gotten off tangent into "the snub" (when Obama turned his back to Hillary and talked to Clair McCaskill at the State of the Union), and AKA was seeing it as sexism. I think she was also calling others who didn't see it that way as sexism as well. As you can see by stackey-dackey's response, he IS NOT IN FACT callling AKA racist but is merely using a rhetorical device--a hypothetical--comparing her assumption that Obama (and his supporters) must be sexist because he turned away (and his supporters didn't take offense) with the same FAULTY logic of assuming that her defense of Clinton means she's racist. Get it? He's actually saying it would be ridiculous to call AKA a racist based on his limited information of her motives.

I know this is the post to which AKA continues to refer because it struck me as unfair at the time when AKA immediately suggested stackey-dackey was calling her a racist, and I responded to that effect. The article is here: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/01/30/hillary/index.html

As it stands, people have repeatedly been called sexist for not voting for Hillary (I'll grant almost all of those have been by the single poster, AKA Smith), but no one to my knowledge has been accused of racism for no other reason than for voting for Clinton.

AKA, I honestly think you need therapy or something. I'm not kidding. You are so angry, and every single thing anyone says comes back to sexism. I don't know who did what to you, but I am sorry for it. You are smart and you obviously know your grammar and writing, which is why it's all the more disingenuous that you continue to portray the above poster as someone who called you a racist b/c you support Hillary over Barack. Most of us are tribal in ways we can't even see, but the level of sexism you see in the world is simply skewed. This comes from a fellow feminist.