{"id":527,"date":"2008-03-15T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-15T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/03\/15\/blatent-racism-and-sexism-is-one-more-acceptable-than-the-other\/"},"modified":"2009-11-28T19:58:36","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T00:58:36","slug":"blatent-racism-and-sexism-is-one-more-acceptable-than-the-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/03\/15\/blatent-racism-and-sexism-is-one-more-acceptable-than-the-other\/","title":{"rendered":"Blatant racism and sexism: is one more acceptable than the other?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we&#8217;re on the topic of the current presidential campaign&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve noticed something interesting about the images and phrases used to criticize Clinton and Obama. Why does the majority of anti-Clinton rhetoric use sexist images and language? And how prevelant is the (expected?) matching racism in the anti-Obama rhetoric and images? Why, instead, does Obama&#8217;s national allegiance and patriotism come into question? I think this would make for a great class discussion on intersectionality, an what prejudices are perceived to be &#8220;socially acceptable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some possible questions for discussion:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is it more socially acceptable to be overtly sexist than overtly racist? Why?<\/li>\n<li>Why might it seem to be more okay to question someone&#8217;s patriotism\/nationalism than to be overtly racist? What is the difference?<\/li>\n<li>What is really racist that doesn&#8217;t immediately appear racist?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And the images&#8211; again these come from Facebook groups with tens of thousands of members. See also previous images of Hillary Clinton <a href=\"http:\/\/sociologicalimages.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/anti-hillary-clinton-sexist-images.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/sociologicalimages.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/sexism-in-politics.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/n99.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/n999.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/AAAAAr-AAAAAAMiqzg.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>&#8220;I found my voice&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177996888902542242\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/2n999.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/n99.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/n999.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>&#8220;Stop mad cow&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178000088653177778\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/2AAAAAr-AAAAAAMiqzg.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&#8220;Fly, my pretties, fly!\u00a0 Bring me the presidency&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177996738578686866\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/2n99.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/hillary-meal-deal.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-5\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/Hillary-WitchII.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-6\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178000535329776594\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/2Hillary-WitchII.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178000307696509890\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/2hillary-meal-deal.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And now for Obama&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178001269769184242\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/2n090000.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178001072200688610\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/2n09.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178001424388006914\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/432n09.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/2n09.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-7\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>And here are some attacking Barack Obama&#8217;s nationality and patriotism:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178007351442875474\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/2obamachar.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178001767985390626\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/2n90000.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178006896176342082\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/2johnmccainelections0.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178001682086044690\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/2n9999.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">And the infamous image (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/politics\/obama\/anthem.asp\">more info from snopes.com<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178001974143820850\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/2n99009.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we&#8217;re on the topic of the current presidential campaign&#8230; I&#8217;ve noticed something interesting about the images and phrases used to criticize Clinton and Obama. Why does the majority of anti-Clinton rhetoric use sexist images and language? And how prevelant is the (expected?) matching racism in the anti-Obama rhetoric and images? Why, instead, does Obama&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,2094,2098,276,85,238,283,285,1760],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-gender-politics","tag-gender-prejudicediscrimination","tag-nationalismpatriotism","tag-politics","tag-election-2008","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16968,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions\/16968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}