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Obama and the white working class
The candidate's Pennsylvania remarks, and his passionate defense of them, are more convincing than the debate about them would have you believe.
Joan Walsh [2008-04-11]

  • woman hating on the left part ii

    Let's look at this quote

    "Approximately 15,000 sexual harassment cases are brought to the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EEOC) each year. Media and government surveys estimate the percentage of women being sexually harassed in the U.S. workplace at 40% to 60%. The European Women's Lobby reports that between 40 and 50 % of female employees have experienced some form of sexual harassment or unwanted sexual behavior in the workplace. Sexual harassment claims filed by men with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has grown from 9% of all charges in fiscal 1992 to 15% in 2003. Many of those claims involve male-on-male harassment; harassment of men by women is rarer, according to legal experts."

    So, are we now going to say that all women are oppressed because of gender EXCEPT Sen. Clinton? Or EXCEPT rich white women? Those of us who have dealt with rich white women who are being horribly controlled, battered and abused by rich white men would beg to differ.

    OF COURSE, oppression is mitigated by class, status, income, privilege, etc. That's why these singular analyses DON'T WORK!

    You can't acknowledge racism, and ignore sexism, or vice versa. In addition, you've go to look at age, faith/religion, sexualities, physical and developmental disability, geographic location, refugee and immigrant status, trafficking status, mental health, physical health, parental status, addiction and language, and then tie it into historic and current systems such as colonialism, environmental destruction, war, globalization, and community and state sponsored violence (like what's going on in our prisons!)

    This is what oppression looks like. And it totally ties into the disgusting junk that Senator Clinton has to deal with in her campaign. ALL progressives, especially and including men, should denounce and decry this sexism, just as ALL progressives, especially and including European-American people, should denounce and decry the racism that is occurring...

    Susan McGee

    -- SusanGSMcGee
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    Friday, April 11, 2008 10:07 PM
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