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Idk man. Is this really meaningfully different than when the right was piling on Obama for wearing a brown suit?
And any time the narrative is "look at what this woman decided to wear and judge her harshly for it," I think it's worth taking a moment to step back and evaluate if you might be the baddie on this one.
And I feel like "getting to first base with the VP" is overstating it. It's a weird hug for sure, but it's not egregious. She moves her hand to his head for, like, half a second. I've known parents who kiss their kids on the lips. Is it weird? Hell yes. But I don't think they were plowing their kids. They were just weird in how they did social affection. And this is way less weird than that.
And look back at that image again. Imagine this was about Michelle Obama. Let's say that she wore something the right found questionable to her husband's funeral, and decided to make a "lying grifter bitch" outfit about her? It would be, at best, in bad taste. And while they could always defend themselves with, "well she shouldn't have decided to dress like that if she didn't want to get mocked," I think that I'd rather not associate myself with that kind of rhetoric, personally.
Jesus, man. The false equivalency is just so terrible.
The devil never asked for an advocate, and those nazi wannabes didn’t either. You don’t have to defend them, especially with language they’d laugh at.
Let me be clear, I'm not being a devil's advocate here.
I genuinely believe it's not okay to tell a widow she's grieving wrong.
I also genuinely believe that telling women how they should be dressed is some sexist BS.
I also genuinely don't think those pants were particularly egregious. And I thought her hug with Vance wasn't particularly scandalous. And I also genuinely believe if it wasn't someone you were already primed to hate, you'd feel the same way.
And I don't think the solution to any of the problems were having in this country is more dehumanization. We get plenty of that with this current administration thanks. And just because they suck doesn't make it okay to abandon your principles.
Gosh, you’re right. I was already primed to hate her. By her and her husband’s repeated statements that people I love should not exist.
I genuinely believe that enforced decorum benefits the powerful. “I get to do whatever I want without consequence but you’re terrible for saying something mean to me” is a thing an oppressor says.