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...then you look for persecution where there is often just disagreement.
Let me make this clear, I'm for Obama but I'm not wildly hostile to a Hillary nomination or presidency. If elected, I'm sure she'd make a decent president, I simply think Obama would make a better and possibly a great one. Granted also, much of the MSM's coverage of Hillary's campaign has been littered with implied (and occasionally explicit) sexism. Granted, once again, that a certain faction of Obama's supporters (and Hillary's, for that matter) have gone simply batshit and use sexist terms and frames to oppose Hillary.
All of that granted, we're still talking about a fairly small minority of Obama supporters here. The majority of Obama supporters aren't sexist. The majority of Obama supporters aren't calling her "bitch", "whore" or "cunt" (I apologise to anyone who feels offended by the words but I believe in confronting offensive language head on, that using such words removes the power from them). We might use those words in an intimate setting with a consenting partner but most of us aren't directing them at Hillary. A small but loud portion of fanatical Obama supporters are and I agree, that's reprehensible but don't blame the majority for the crimes of the minority.
I'm a history buff and one of the areas that fascinate me are the Inquisitions. The attitude taken by the Inquisitions was that no sane person (and it's worth pointing out that their victims were largely but not entirely women) would or could reject the embrace of mother church. Therefore, anyone who did must be either insane or in the service of devils. Now, I'm not arguing that the Hillary supporters are as bad as the Inquisitions. That's taking hyperbole too far, even for me but for an annoyingly loud number, there is a suggestion of the same mindset: That no sane person would reject the embrace of Hillary and therefore, anyone who does must be crazy or a cultist or, most often, sexist. It's a zero-sum game; if x, then y and it's insulting.
There are many good reasons to support a Hillary nomination. There are also many good reasons to support an Obama nomination and there are good reasons to oppose the nomination of either. In other words, if you cannot concieve of a reason why someone would choose Obama over Hillary except sexism, then it is you who has the problem, not them.
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