Pointing Out That Hillary Clinton’s Running on Her Gender Isn’t Sexist, It’s Just True

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Rapper and Bernie Sanders supporter Killer Mike landed himself in hot water recently after saying the following about Hillary Clinton:

When people tell us, “hold on, wait a while”—and that’s what the other Democrat is telling you—“Hold on, Black Lives Matter, just wait a while. Hold on, young people in this country, just wait a while.” And then she get good, she have your own momma come to you, your momma sit down and say, “Well you’re a woman.” But I talked to [liberal activist] Jane Elliott a few weeks ago, and Jane said, “Michael, a uterus doesn’t qualify you to be president of the United States. You have to have policies that’s reflective of social justice.”

That uterus comment drew the ire of feminists and Clinton supporters, who bashed it as crude and sexist. “Can’t we just agree that reducing a female candidate to a reproductive body part is disrespectful?” Joan Walsh said in a typical tweet. The Clinton campaign called the comments “disappointing,” saying “Obviously if the suggestion there is that Hillary Clinton is asking anyone to vote for her based on her gender, that’s completely off base.”

There’s a case to be made that Killer Mike’s comments were inappropriate for their crudity. But that a) wasn’t a concern that was raised when supporter Lena Dunham asked Clinton if she had seen a man’s penis, and b) is kind of a given when you’re talking about a rapper whose lyrics include references to “freak sluts” and “monkey niggas.” I never heard liberal feminists make a fuss about Mr. Mike’s language before he attacked Clinton, to whip out the smelling salts now seems more than a little contrived.

For the sake of argument, let’s agree that the man who goes around with the word “Killer” in front of his name used language that is generally beyond the pale in presidential discourse. Critics also claim that the substance of his argument was sexist. So getting down to the real debate: was Mr. Mike right to imply Clinton is running on her gender, and if so, was it wrong of him to point it out?

The answers to those questions are yes, and hell no.

The number of times that Clinton had made appeals to voters based solely on her gender make it basically impossible to list them all, but I’ll give just a few examples as an illustration:

• Clinton has on at least three separate occasions responded to criticism that she is an establishment candidate by saying that she would be the first woman president. This has been her sole response to the establishment question. The frequency with which she has employed this line is a pretty strong indication that this was a bottled line created by the campaign.
• The Clinton campaign literally cut a commercial of young girls saying how much they want a woman for president, in what is arguably the most manipulative campaign ad since Johnson said that Goldwater would make the Soviets bomb that little girl.
• Two female Clinton surrogates have told women that they are betraying their entire gender if they don’t vote for Sanders. When asked to repudiate these comments, the Clinton campaign refused outright. Clinton herself laughed the comments off when asked about them.

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