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In reply to the discussion: I want to thank the defenders of misogyny [View all]BainsBane
(57,751 posts)with others echoing the sentiment. There are at least three entire threads. Additionally, people were up in arms when Quinnox was PPR'd and blamed a feminist horde for his downfall, which you can see in his tombstone thread. He was a racist and a misogynist, yet still far better liked than I or the other feminists maligned in that thread. What does that tell you? No small number of posters backed him up, decried his banning, and blamed me in particular (absurdly) and a group of women more generally for his banning.
Secondly, I don't need to justify my vote. It doesn't belong to you or anyone else here. It is my right as an American citizen to vote for whomever the fuck I want. Additionally, many responses to this thread are a stunning demonstration of precisely what I discussed in my OP.
I want to make something clear. You and no one else here has NO RIGHT to tell me how I am allowed to vote or require I "justify" my Democratic rights. I would like to know what makes you think you have the right to even suggest I do so? I am on a Democratic site declaring my allegiance for a Democrat who is a candidate for the Democratic nomination. Others have chosen not to support someone who isn't in fact a Democrat. That is their right, and I don't tell them they need to justify it, yet you have the nerve to come and ask me how I justify my decision, as though refusing to support a Democrat were a default position? And then, the utter and complete hypocrisy of the lot of you demanding I justify myself while continuing to post at and financially contribute to a site run by Clinton supporters. Have you asked those men to justify their votes? How do you justify financially contributing to their profits if you consider supporting Clinton to be so illicit it requires justification?