Solnit: Unconscious Bias is Running for President

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8. Misogyny or not R.S. nails it with this description:

"Meanwhile, the New York Times in all its august unbearability just published this prize sentence in a piece about Joe Biden’s 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. Biden’s 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, let’s run a guy whose treatment of women is an issue, and let’s ignore that treatment because even so we think that he’s 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.