{"id":1768,"date":"2005-08-07T12:42:45","date_gmt":"2005-08-07T19:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/08\/07\/what-do-her-tits-have-to-do-with-anything\/"},"modified":"2005-08-07T12:42:45","modified_gmt":"2005-08-07T19:42:45","slug":"what-do-her-tits-have-to-do-with-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1768","title":{"rendered":"What do her tits have to do with anything?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liberal blog Fables of the Reconstruction provides a “conservative blog taxomony.<\/a>” Some of it made me chuckle (“Dean Esmay is popular among right-wingers as one of those centrists who just happen to hate liberals and Democrats”) , but his description of Michelle Malkin is pretty deplorable:<\/p>\n

Far-right affirmative action hire who is so bigoted she’d arrest herself for trying to cross a border. Famously published a book praising internment of Japanese-Americans that was (a) incoherent and (b) probably not written by her. If she didn’t have tits, she’d be stuck writing at Townhall.com.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One comment-writer at Fables, Disputo, wrote in response<\/a>: “I could do without the sexist language. Isn’t Malkin’s writings enough fodder for complaint? Must you also denigrate her for being a woman?” As far as I can tell (and it’s very possible I’ve missed a bunch), Disputo is the one and only lefty to object to the sexism – even though, as David Bernstein at Volokh<\/a> points out, plenty of lefties have provided admiring comments or links.<\/p>\n

Before anyone tells me “it was just a joke, you can’t object to jokes,” how would you have reacted if he wrote “if she wasn’t a slant-eyes….”?<\/p>\n

Not the first time Malkin has received bigoted criticisms, and far from the grossest<\/a>. Still, it would be nice if the allegedly anti-sexist and anti-racist half of the political spectrum was more, y’know, consistently anti-sexist and anti-racist.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: See also Sivacracy <\/a>and The Debate Link<\/a>. From The Debate Link:<\/p>\n

…Under this view, Malkin’s popularity is partially premised on her position as someone conservatives can point to and say: “Look! We’re not racist–some minorities agree with us!”–a status that is interwoven with her status as a woman and minority. And one could then extrapolate that if Malkin didn’t provide that particular service to conservatives (IE, being a conservative minority woman), she’d be a non-entity.<\/p>\n

That argument is sophisticated, controversial, and debatable (I make no comment on whether or not it is correct as applied to Malkin). It is not, however, conveyed in a crude posting that marks Malkin’s success as solely attributable to her “tits.” Make the latter argument, but the former should be an anathema to true liberals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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