Certainly not as much trouble as either one of the white candidates would be if they called Obama a nigger. A bitch isn’t just a general insult for a woman, it’s also a comment on her character. And a pretty apt one, as far as the general populace thinks. Perhaps referring to her as a ‘slit’ or ‘slash’* might be a better parallel.
*two terms that are used infrequently, but they’re the only ones I can think of that could be similarly insulting to a woman without being a comment on their individual character.
Was the fetus already aborted and going to be used for stem cells, or was it a Sharon Tate type deal?
In response to the OP, it would be bad.
If it were McCain then Fox News would lead with “John McCain (D-Arizona) Uses N-Word- Huckabee Raises Heath Ledger From Dead” or if it were Clinton they’d lead with "Hillary Clinton (D-Jew York) Says Nigger, Sources Say She Called Rice a ‘Nappy Headed Ho’ and Speaks of “Final Solution to the Irish”. For CNN, if I were his campaign manager I’d make sure that Natalie Holloway’s body was found or that Michael Vick was given a children’s reality show or that Britney ran over a blind nun holding a panda cub sometime the next week, because then they’d forget all about it and only focus on that scandal.
Yeah, I thought about that, but it’s another term, like bitch, that correlates with ‘jerk’, in my experience. Perhaps misogynists try to mask their bigotry a little bit better than racists, but all of the good anti-woman terms are loaded with decent reasons to dislike someone. ‘Nigger’ works as a catchall insult that doesn’t allow for dispute.
Wow, the consensus is only white Democrats would find it offensive, especially if Obama used the word.
So, I guess some folks here think Republicans don’t really mind racism, they only pretend to mind racism. And black people must actually like racism, I guess.
Seems a mighty simplistic way to look at the people you live with.
