You know better than that. You're merely being disingenuous in this claim. Even if Obama supporters referred to each other as kids (I have never seen Obama supporters on mydd or dkos do this), that does not mean that it would be a reasonable idea to call Obama supporters kids when you are attacking them. I have noticed many Clinton supporters calling each other (and their candidate) girl, but I would never think to refer to Clinton supporters as girls and then try to excuse it by claiming that they call each other that.
linc, didn't you post approvingly on the "Grow up, people" diary only a few hours ago? Admittedly, you did say "you first."
Okay, that is fair. I think both campaigns did moderately shitty things, but nothing in this campaign compares to the stuff the Dems did to each other in 2004 or the stuff Bush did to McCain in 2000.
I really can't recall ever seeing Obama supporters refer to themselves as kids, doesn't mean it didn't happen.
No you were trying to be insulting, and you know that, same as if people opposing Hillary had called her "girl".
"I have, on many occasions, seen Obama fans refer to themselves as kids."
I haven't. But either way, as people have tried to explain you it doesn't matter. You don't get to decide that a potentially offensive name isn't offensive just because you've seen people refer to themselves as such.
I have seen many times see grown women refer to each other as girls, but that doesn't give any man the right to call "girl" a woman in order to disparage her.
You fail Feminism 101 if you don't know that. You fail Common Sense 101 if you don't see the parallel with that scenario.
Just say you didn't mean to be offensive and avoid doing it again, rather than argue that it's okay because you've seen a few-self references. That argument fails -- it's the very same argument used to justify the n-word from white racists "blacks themselves use it, why can't I", the d-word word from homophobes "lesbians themselves use it, why can't I", and the girl-word from sexists "women refer to themselves as such, why can't I".
