Right-wingers go full misogynist at impeachment witness Pamela Karlan
https://www.salon.com/2019/12/05/right-wingers-go-full-misogynist-at-impeachment-witness-pamela-karlan/As soon as Pamela Karlan, a constitutional law professor at Stanford who specializes in voting rights, opened her mouth during Wednesday's impeachment hearing before the House Judiciary Committee, I knew she would become the prime if not exclusive focus of the entire right-wing response to the hearing.
Republicans were desperate to do anything to keep voters from paying attention to the actual substance of the testimony from the three law professors summoned to explain why Donald Trump should be impeached for his crimes, since the substance of their testimony is irrefutable. And while all three were articulate, intelligent and crystal clear in their arguments, only Karlan was female.
It is from Salon and written by leftist hack Amanda Marcotte.
When one uses the gender or race card, they lose.
This is also what fuels the anti-choice movement, of course: Hatred of women that is concealed by, and rationalized with, feigned concern over the fate of "babies." Those were also the arguments used against women's right to vote, divorce, hold jobs or do pretty much anything that gives them power and agency in the world: Somehow, this will harm children.
Here we go again.
Unfortunately, this is likely to work as intended: By appealing straight for the lizard-brain hatred of smart, independent women on the right, Republican politicians and pundits will be able to bamboozle their base into doing what most already want to do, which is to think about anything besides the fact that their beloved president committed crimes and is trying to get away with it. Misogyny is a blunt instrument. But all too often it's an effective one.
Proof this has to do with misogyny? It is called bullying. Remember Katie Rich or Kathy Griffin?
