Can I say this? That Marsha Blackburn - R - Tenn is an asshole

[whathehell]

97. Sorry, but it's not a question of "priorities"

because it's not an "either/or" situation -- One can be concerned about poverty and STILL react

negatively to slurs directed at a particular group of people.

If you doubt that, I invite you to read your own words and substitute "African Americans" for "women".


"What I said was there seems to be much more attention paid to words and how people choose to feel about them than, say, the several million women who are too fucking poor to be able to take advantage of the ACA, for instance, while two well-fed middle class white women argue on tv"

When you do that, you will see that you could say the EXACT same thing about African-Americans and the "n-word".

Given that reality, would you scold them for taking offense to racial slurs?...I don't think so,

and that would be the right choice...The only thing to do now is apply the same standard to women.