The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Recall that she actually won the popular vote

Here's Why Hillary Clinton Believes Misogyny Is "Darker" Than Sexism

Writes E. CE Miller at Bustle,

“This has to be said: sexism and misogyny played a role in the 2016 presidential election.” Clinton writes in her memoir. 

It’s a declaration that won’t come as a surprise to most women. 

Though few places are as fraught with sexism and misogyny as Washington D.C. politics, gendered stereotyping, discrimination, and violence are something American women and women all over the world face every day, to varying degrees.

But what might surprise readers is that Clinton doesn’t place the blame solely on Trump, even though he ran a “flagrantly sexist” campaign that even the infamous Access Hollywood recording couldn’t thwart.

Hillary is to sexism what Ta-Nehisi Coates is to racism, but she's been hiding it for years.

Pretty much all grown women have a little Hillary in them, so far as that goes, and all grown blacks have a little TNC.

Why would anyone doubt Hillary Clinton's character? Sexism, she explains in her new book.

Hill writes,

As for 2016, Clinton says "Exhibit A" in the role sexism played in her electoral defeat, "is that the flagrantly sexist candidate won."

"A whole lot of people listened to the tape of him bragging about sexually assaulting women, shrugged, and said, ‘He still gets my vote,'" she writes.

Ignoratio elenchi is the fallacy sometimes called in English, "Irrelevant Conclusion."

See the quoted Davies exposition in the Wikipedia piece.

Hillary's argument here - from a incontestably true premise, by the way - is as fine an example as you'll see coming from the pen of an intelligent writer.

Her premise that people voted for him despite, not because of, his sexism supports the conclusion that in some measure he won despite the hostility of even his own voters to sexism.

But she concludes he won because of the sexism of the voters.

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