Instead of asking the objects of bias to do the work of identifying and describing it, we could ask its perpetrators. rtraister writes
Photo: Mark Makela/Getty Images In advance of the third Democratic primary debate, in which Elizabeth Warren will face off for the first time this year against Barack Obama’s former vice-president Joe Biden, Politico published a lengthy, detailed story about Warren’s rocky relationship with Obama’s economic team during his term as president.
The notion that by not affirming Thompson’s query about sexism she was “dodging” anything is flawed at best, and symptomatic of sexism itself at worst, though I do not mean to suggest that by posing this question to Warren — and reporting that she chose not to answer it— Thompson is remotely alone. Which is probably why what usually happens when I chirpily ask them these questions is that I am met with silent gazes, long stares — sometimes hard and exasperated, sometimes pleading. These women look me straight in the eye, seemingly willing me to understand the position they are in. There is often a pause. And then a refusal, expressed one way or another, to answer the question.
Through it all, Obama refused to publicly call this racism racist. So explosive would it have been to call it out that even though he didn’t, his opponents claimed that he had. Bill Clinton got huffy, erroneously arguing that the Obama campaign had called his wife “a racist” while congressman and civil-rights hero John Lewis, then still a Clinton supporter, claimed that some in the Obama campaign were orchestrating “a deliberate, systemic attempt … to really fan the flame of race.
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