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ashling

(25,771 posts)
Fri Mar 6, 2015, 04:42 PM Mar 2015

The Obamacare Fight Has Always Been About Race And Gender Anxiety

It’s startling to see an Obamacare opponent so bluntly characterize efforts to destroy the law as a way to preserve white male privilege in this way, much less taking it so far as to suggest the privileges of dead white men count for more than the needs of living women and people of color. But it shouldn’t be. The race- and-gender-based opposition to the ACA has been baked into the fight against it from the beginning, when the bill was very nearly derailed by opponents claiming that it would somehow override federal bans on funding abortion.[/div]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/obamacare-fight-race-and-gender-anxiety-michael-carvin

I respectfully suggest a change in the wording of the above paragraph:
that this wording should use the term "half-baked"
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