Start Making Sense: Should Feminists Vote For Hillary Clinton?

Start Making Sense: Should Feminists Vote For Hillary Clinton?

Start Making Sense: Should Feminists Vote For Hillary Clinton?

Katha Pollitt vs. Liza Featherstone on Hillary; plus Tavis Smiley on Martin Luther King’s last year.

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Katha Pollitt says feminists should vote for Hillary—she will be good for women, and Bernie can’t win.

But Liza Featherstone says feminists should not vote for Hillary—her record is full of attacks on poor women, starting with “welfare reform.”

And Tavis Smiley talks about Martin Luther King’s last year—the year that began with his speech condemning the war in Vietnam, where he called the US “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.”
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