Pointing out Trump supporters were happy to label HC a "cunt" might well expose their double standards, but it doesn't mitigate yours.
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So how are they then even remotely similar?
How is using a misogynistic slur, which has a long history of being used to silence and intimidate women, and which forms part of the linguistic weaponry ubiquitously employed by the alt-right, remotely similar to using a racist slur? Seriously, that's your question?
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You can't seem anything *remotely* similar? This is Feminism 101. I could provide a reading list. You do understand how the word "cunt", when deployed in this sense, forms part of the language of sexual violence? I mean this stuff should be obvious.
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The fact that Bee is a woman doesn't magically erase the structural and systemic nature of this kind of language. Of course, it would be worse if she were a man, but it's absolutely the standard feminist line that you shouldn't use the word "cunt" in that sort of context.
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Of course, you might want to argue that the history of racism, and the kind of imagery employed by Barr is worse. I've no problem with that. But... that doesn't justify the leftist apologetics that are currently all the rage.
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