I came across an article written by Sally Kohn in which this self proclaimed "pundit" calls Carly Fiorina an "anti-feminist feminist". As is usually the case with an article by Kohn, the story is short on facts and long on ideology. In Kohn's world, she has rewritten "the truth will set you free" into the more convenient "if the truth doesn't work, just say whatever you want." I honestly don't understand why any site would publish her stuff anymore. (Okay, the article is at the Daily Beast site, so there aren't likely to be many readers.)
Kohn's thesis is that Fiorina is using her identity as a woman to get votes in response to the recent attack on her by Donald Trump. For a leftist Democrat like Kohn, this is somehow contradictory to Fiorina's past statements that she does not believe in identity politics, a statement which in the Kohn universe makes Fiorina an "anti-feminist". What utter nonsense!
Identity politics is the practice of selecting politicians based upon their ethnic, racial, religious or gender identities. You know the people for whom it is more important to vote for an African American transsexual than to select a person who is likely to do the best job in office; those are the folks engaged in identity politics. What Fiorina has said repeatedly is that she does not want to be elected because she is a woman, but rather that she wants to be elected because she is the best candidate for the office. Kohn and her ilk want to use discrimination in politics; Fiorina and her kind want to have equality so that it is the quality of the individual that prevails in elections.
The point of view of the Kohn heads is also clearly shown by this statement in her latest article: "Ben Carson’s early appeal throughout his political campaign has arguably been that he gives cover to conservative voters who want to oppose Obama without seeming racist." For Kohn, it could not possibly be that the GOP voters like Carson's ideas. That would be impossible for Kohn to consider because all Republicans are racist, so they are only using Carson for their racist purposes. It's the kind of confused and misleading argument that could only come from the delusions of a leftist Democrat.
The reality of Fiorina's candidacy is that Carly is an accomplished individual. She started with nothing and rose to become the head of Hewlett Packard. That's an accomplishment that someone like Kohn herself could not come close to matching. In her career, Kohn has managed to penetrate the news/opinion business to the relative heights of Fox News only to be bounced from that network. Since then she has been sinking until today, her article ran on the Daily Beast, a site which may be better than Al Jazeera America, but not by much.
Kohn's thesis is that Fiorina is using her identity as a woman to get votes in response to the recent attack on her by Donald Trump. For a leftist Democrat like Kohn, this is somehow contradictory to Fiorina's past statements that she does not believe in identity politics, a statement which in the Kohn universe makes Fiorina an "anti-feminist". What utter nonsense!
Identity politics is the practice of selecting politicians based upon their ethnic, racial, religious or gender identities. You know the people for whom it is more important to vote for an African American transsexual than to select a person who is likely to do the best job in office; those are the folks engaged in identity politics. What Fiorina has said repeatedly is that she does not want to be elected because she is a woman, but rather that she wants to be elected because she is the best candidate for the office. Kohn and her ilk want to use discrimination in politics; Fiorina and her kind want to have equality so that it is the quality of the individual that prevails in elections.
The point of view of the Kohn heads is also clearly shown by this statement in her latest article: "Ben Carson’s early appeal throughout his political campaign has arguably been that he gives cover to conservative voters who want to oppose Obama without seeming racist." For Kohn, it could not possibly be that the GOP voters like Carson's ideas. That would be impossible for Kohn to consider because all Republicans are racist, so they are only using Carson for their racist purposes. It's the kind of confused and misleading argument that could only come from the delusions of a leftist Democrat.
The reality of Fiorina's candidacy is that Carly is an accomplished individual. She started with nothing and rose to become the head of Hewlett Packard. That's an accomplishment that someone like Kohn herself could not come close to matching. In her career, Kohn has managed to penetrate the news/opinion business to the relative heights of Fox News only to be bounced from that network. Since then she has been sinking until today, her article ran on the Daily Beast, a site which may be better than Al Jazeera America, but not by much.
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