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Adventures in Misogyny and Racism: Election Edition

The debate on Sunday gave more than enough examples.

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Adventures in Misogyny and Racism: Election Edition

After watching the debate last night, I was reminded again what a misogynist and racist world that we live in every time Trump opened his mouth. So let's go through these adventures this week.

It started early with Trump changing the subject from a talk about his comments from ten years ago being leaked to a discussion about ISIS. An obvious change of subject that really didn't flow. However, the fact that he took several minutes to deny doing such a thing was concerning.

What was more concerning was the fact that he didn't see a problem with the fact that he was talking about assaulting women even if he never did something like that. Which is questionable considering he has a court date where he was accused of raping someone.

However, that kind of talk is things that women deal with everyday. Women are groped, harassed, and assaulted at young ages and talk like that only encourages men to do it more.

Almost every woman has a story of assault or groping before they reach the age of fourteen or fifteen. The fact that he equates talking about rape and assault to just words was worrying. Words have power now, that's why they were on stage debating.

He didn't stop there though. He started bringing up Clinton's husband's past. He blamed her for his actions and tried to throw her in the mud by blaming her for his actions.

This wasn't a debate against Bill. It was against Hillary.

Women are not responsible for their husband's actions. They're not their keepers, and they're not their parents. Men are perfectly capable of being blamed without dragging their wives or their female friends into it.

He had no right to make Hillary answer for her husband's actions because they weren't her's.

Trump's issues continued as he failed at basic math when talking about Clinton's emails yet again. 33,00; 35,000; 15,000. All numbers he quoted. That wasn't misogynist though. That was just bad math.

However, the audience and viewers like me got a chuckle when Trump tried to claim he was a gentleman.

Trump also repeatedly talked over the moderators and Clinton. He interrupted her 18 times and sniffled 93 times in the debate. This isn't something that's uncommon. Women are more likely to be interrupted than a man in any conversation, and Trump just added to it.

The moderators even called him out on it, but Trump just wouldn't quit. He rarely let Hillary get through her statements without some sort of reaction when she listened politely for the most part.

Sexism isn't where he stopped though. Racism had to have a role to play in this debate.

Trump also called people crossing the borders drug dealers and criminals without distinction. He said he wouldn't let refugees into the country at all even though called people crossing the borders drug dealers and criminals without distinction. He said he wouldn't let refugees into the country at all even though their homes are being destroyed and people are dying. Clinton proposed a plan about vetting though and then about allowing them in.

Trump then continued to make Hillary bear the sole blame for not getting acts through Congress. Keeping mind that no one can do something alone in politics, this was just ridiculous on its own.

That's just a short coverage of these adventures in misogyny and racism for this week. I'm sure we could find plenty more though, and that's just from Trump.

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