[I]s sexism worse than racism, so we need to vote for Hillary because things would change more, or is racism worse than sexism, so we need to vote for Hillary because Obama can’t win in the general?

Because we’ve definitely heard both. I don’t know how many Clinton supporters have made the former, from Gloria Steinem to Geraldine Ferraro, and for those of us sitting on the sidelines of these two profoundly complex and privileged people getting caricatured as their race and sex, it’s annoying. And such comments are definitely not moving the discussion forward.

As I’ve said time and time again, to say flatly that one is worse than the other erases the intersections of race and gender, rendering black women invisible and white men normal, denies the way factors such as ability and class play into the lives of the candidates, and ignores the multiple narratives on race and gender that work differently to prevent people from reaching various aspects of their potential. – - Alex Blaze in Bilerico

There’s more in Blaze’s article, including a question by Chris Matthews that made my blood run cold:

Discussing Sen. Barack Obama on the April 1 edition of MSNBC’s Hardball, host Chris Matthews asked Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO): “Let me ask you about how he — how’s he connect with regular people?

Regular people?

But that’s because regular people are white.

Matthews didn’t really make a mistake, because the continuing narrative of the corporate media is that whiteness is rightness; maleness is rightness; straightness is rightness; ability is rightness; speaking English is rightness; religion is rightness, just so long as it’s both Christian and “Christian enough” ; wealth and power are rightness.

“Boo hoo hoo,” say the “regular” Americans. “You must be feeling oppressed. You must want a payoff, a ride on the gravy train. If you aren’t straight, rich, white and able, it’s your fault. There must be something wrong with you. This is the land of free markets and unlimited opportunity.”

I’m outraged and I’m severely tempted to other these obtuse little creatures of privilege, but they need to be brought into America, if only out of compassion.

If you haven’t been living in America for the past 30 years and need to catch up, here’s a Google video of Malcolm X speaking on The Modern Racist Paradigm

Replace “racism” in that speech with  sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, or any of the sicknesses that make intersectionality necessary, and he’s still speaking the truth.