Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Solnit: Unconscious Bias is Running for President [View all]bloom
(11,635 posts)"Meanwhile, the New York Times in all its august unbearability just published this prize sentence in a piece about Joe Bidens failure to offer Anita Hill an apology she found adequate: Many former Judiciary Committee aides and other people who participated did not want to talk on the record because they feared that scrutiny of Mr. Bidens past conduct would undermine the campaign of the candidate some think could be best positioned to defeat President Trump, whose treatment of women is a huge issue for Democrats. That translates as, lets run a guy whose treatment of women is an issue, and lets ignore that treatment because even so we think that hes best positioned to defeat the guy whose treatment of women is an issue, and also fuck treatment of women, especially this black woman, as an issue, really...."
As R.S. notes - something like 11% of Democratic voters are white men - yet look at the attention white men get.
I get the sense that many of the Biden lovers don't really get it - the difference in supporting him and supporting a woman who would defeat Trump. I don't see Biden as a leader at all. I do see Harris & Warren as leaders.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided