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Of course no one would make up a shirt for Obama using a similarly inflammatory word. That would mean a righteous ass-whupping.
-- Herself
First of all, it sorta depends on where you are. But then again, I've been called nigger and I've never been to the South! And, yes, I guess it was in the same place that someone called me a cunt (not by a "redneck" but by a progressive vegan "hippie".)
All of these attempts to create a gender vs. race war ends up hurting the very people (women and people of color) who are being forced to engage in the charade. Really, you can't talk about gender bias without talking about racism, and for that matter, classism. Until we acknowledge that all of these "isms" come from the same deep well, we're all sunk.
Finally, gender bias, while being inextricably linked to both racism and classism, is more upfront, which gives people allowance for these vile attacks on Hillary. I think after all of the ugly violence (not to mention slavery) done against blacks in this county by whites has made racism a more publically shameful affair, so white people are less likely to vocalize it. Doesn't mean it's not there. And to those that complain that broadsheet is relegated to the "pink ghetto," please examine your own actions and rhetoric and then think about that accusation.
--TB
