Elizabeth Warren was just silenced on the Senate floor for quoting Coretta Scott King

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http://www.vox.com/identities/2017/2/8/14546960/elizabeth-warren-jeff-sessions-orrin-hatch-think-of-his-wife

Quote:Supposedly, Warren was shut down out of concern for decorum and decency. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) argued that Warren violated an obscure Senate rule by speaking ill of a fellow senator.

But Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) went even further in pleading for politeness — by urging his colleagues to think of Sessions’s wife.

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Orrin Hatch said he finds it "offensive" for senators to be criticizing a fellow senator (Jeff Sessions) on the floor. "Think of his wife"
9:58 PM - 7 Feb 2017

“Jeff Sessions is a really fine person,” [url=http://www.mediaite.com/online/sen-orrin-hatch-slams-elizabeth-warren-for-constant-diatribe-against-sessions/]Hatch said. “Think of his wife. She’s a really fine person. Jeff has been here 20 years. He’s interchanged with almost all of us. Sometimes you agree with him and sometimes you don’t, but he’s always been a gentleman.”

There are many problems with Hatch’s comments — like the suggestion that pointing out racism is somehow impolite, or that you can’t possibly hold racist views if you are a “gentleman.” As my colleague German Lopez has explained, Sessions really does have a problematic record on racial justice and civil rights issues.

But the most stunning part may have been when Hatch seemingly argued to silence a woman senator, who was quoting a woman civil rights leader, in order to avoid hurting another woman’s feelings by criticizing her husband’s political behavior.

It’s common for politicians to make emotional appeals to think of how certain events will affect our “wives and daughters.” It’s also a classic example of benevolent sexism: the idea that women must be protected and cherished, but not necessarily treated like equals.

Thinking of women primarily as wives and daughters means thinking of them in terms of their relationship to men, which often means forgetting that women are also full human beings in their own right.

I do believe he got the vapors over such language from a member of the fairer sex!