#HillaryMen: From Beijing to Brooklyn: Hillary Is the Woman They Just Can't Silence (HILLARY GROUP) [View all]
...The right for a woman to be heard is fundamental to the 2016 presidential election. Denying that right to be heard – silencing Hillary – is fundamental to those who oppose the fight for fairness and equality. Silence woman, silence women.
We see it in the manic attacks that Hillary has endured since she announced her second presidential run. We see it in the cacophony of voices demanding that she apologize for using a private email account while at the State Department, something she was legally entitled to do.
When Hillary stepped up and delivered a historic speech that neither the White House nor the Chinese government wanted her to give, she boldly planted a stake in the ground for women’s rights. And she did so with only her voice and her presence in the heart of a capital city of a totalitarian society where human rights are themselves subject to the whims of a single party. She was completely fearless and she was playing the long game; Hillary knew that no speech would change the social and economic landscape with women overnight, but that her words would echo long after they were delivered. As they have.
That fearlessness on behalf of women – both in the U.S. and globally – is the quality that generates fear among so many of her political opponents and their media allies. It is the basis for their hatred and the reason they are throwing every ounce of dirt they have at her....
There has been progress on the difficult path to equality, but there is much to do. This is a long, long movement. Defeating Hillary Clinton with gender-biased narratives, focus-grouped frames and false scandals would damage that movement in this country, perhaps for generations.
If we recoil and lose hope from each misogynistic mugging on Morning Joe, or derisive article in a national daily, or sexist hit from rightwing talking heads, we are allowing Hillary's detractors to stop that movement in its tracks.
Remember, the “right to be heard” was central to Hillary’s history-making speech in Beijing. Do not surrender that right easily. And keep in mind these words from 20 years ago that still ring true today:
As long as discrimination and inequities remain so commonplace everywhere in the world, as long as girls and women are valued less, fed less, fed last, overworked, underpaid, not schooled, subjected to violence in and outside their homes -- the potential of the human family to create a peaceful, prosperous world will not be realized.
#HillaryMen (Tom Watson and Peter Daou)
http://www.hillarymen.com/latest/2015/9/5/silence-woman-silence-women-hillary-beijing
= new reply since forum marked as read
