2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Flawed: Perfect Is The Enemy Of The Good If Youre A Female Presidential Candidate [View all]synergie
(1,901 posts)the election, not just AFTER the election. This was the narrative. I suspect you didn't read the article, or pay attention to what was being said PRIOR to November 8th. Even then, the amount of hate directed towards her and those who supported her, was at an unusual level.
Even now, you're literally saying things that are not true, but you don't seem to wish to acknowledge facts. You're still slinging the same attacks that you were doing in the primaries, perhaps because due to your personal dislike of the candidate, due to the 20 years of utter lies, the misogyny or the vicious attacks that have been common place?
You could also observe the media's failure to actually address real scandals, the constant harangues from the supposed left, which excused Trump and pretty much everyone else to continue to pretend that normal practice for ex officials were reasons to pour scorn upon Hillary. She won 3 million votes despite all of this, yet still people ignore the numerous factors that actually lost her the 70,000 votes to heap blame upon her for getting standard speakers fees? For releasing her taxes, so you knew how much she was paid? They were not only not illegal, there was literally nothing ethically or politically wrong with them. She didn't ignore the spirit of anything, she was merely spitefully denied the same accommodations made for Obama with the blackberry, and everyone refuses to pay attention to the normal operations of the diplomatic staff, which included using separate accounts, all the Secretaries of state before her did it, but when it's her, it's evil!
Who asked for a "safe space"? We know that DU allows and has allowed open season on Hillary supporters, from alert abuse, silencing, swarming, and harassment offline. It's simply honest to take a look at the factors that engendered such abuse and made it so very easy for so many not only to attack her but her supporters, at the root of that is misogyny. It's undeniable. We're still dealing with today.