2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: King: The idea of an African-American firewall for Hillary Clinton is deeply insulting [View all]TheBlackAdder
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I've leaned Clinton for years, engaged in Women and Politics education, and during research through the hundred peer reviewed sites my university is connected to, I have seen more than I can stand to stay willfully blind. I have stayed as a neutral for a long time, refusing to lean Sanders, but I am starting to become disillusioned with the scores of highly-damaging things that I have come across and I know the GOP are in ownership of. As I have posed on other threads, I will put out the common YouTube Keith Olbermann link from time to time to snap people out of this myth that HRC is a nice person. But, I will not put out any other information that, in any way, could be used as opposition research for others, including those who I do not know from chats or emails. Having said that, I am open for information to convince me. I will address issues of injustice when I see them, such as today, when I shut down an SBS guy trying to defend the term 'cackling' for HRC's laugh. and other gender issues.
The reason why the millennials are leaning with Sanders is that they do not subscribe to an outdated definitions of feminism. They side more with the Bell Hooks definition, "Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation and oppression." To be a feminist no longer means to side with a woman, but someone seen as promoting feminist causes.
That in itself is revealing! Younger people are objectively assessing who will be best for them, since they seem more accepting and more intollerant to social injustices and biases.
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