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Stop Calling Hillary Clinton The 'Feminist' Choice

She is not a feminist. She is a politician.

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Stop Calling Hillary Clinton The 'Feminist' Choice
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Hillary Clinton made history this week as the first female to be a major party’s presumed nominee. But as we celebrate this amazing accomplishment of feminism, we do not need to assume that Hillary Clinton is a feminist.

From guest starring on “Broad City” to changing her position on issues to better align with Bernie Sanders (the candidate with the highest rate of millennial votes), Hillary Clinton is known for switching sides on issues to gain power and respect from millennial voters.

“At best, Clinton in these respects has been a cautious responder to progressive political winds rather than a trailblazing leader,” According to Kevin Young and Diana C. Sierrra Becear for Solidarity.

After Gloria Steinem assumed that women were voting for Bernie Sanders to get attention from boys, Curtis Louder wrote, “Maybe these young women don't appreciate her hypocrisy in claiming that all women should be believed when they say they were raped when in fact she led the charge against multiple women who claimed Bill Clinton did exactly that.”

Outside of Clinton’s neglect of American women’s issues until her 2008 campaign, she has been adamant in making sure that female workers in Haiti and Honduras were left without enough money to take care of themselves or their children.

“WikiLeaks documents show that in 2009 her State Department collaborated with subcontractors for Hanes, Levi’s and Fruit of the Loom to oppose a minimum wage increase for Haitian workers. After the January 2010 earthquake, she helped spearhead the highly militarized U.S. response,” report Young and Becear.

They go on to state:

“Clinton’s foreign policy record is even more at odds with her reputation as a champion of women’s and LGBT rights. Her policy of support for the 2009 coup in Honduras has been disastrous for (women and LGBT groups). Violent hate crimes against LGBT Hondurans have skyrocketed. In mid-2014, leading LGBT activist Nelson Arambú reported 176 murders against LGBT individuals since 2009, an average of about 35 per year, compared to just over one per year in the period 1994-2009.”

In fact, the problem of Hillary Clinton’s claim of feminism is again summed up by Young and Becear:

“In this country, feminism is often understood as the right of women—wealthy white women most of all—to share in the spoils of corporate capitalism and U.S. imperial power. By not confronting the exclusion of non-whites, foreigners, working-class people, and other groups from this vision, liberal feminists miss a crucial opportunity to create a more inclusive, more powerful movement.”

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