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Thursday, June 09, 2016

"Historic"

This post by Digby sort of crystallized something that's been in the back of my head for a while:

The pundits and the reporters all seemed to notice at the same time that Hillary Clinton had won the Democratic nomination. And it seemed to dawn on them that it was an important moment worth noting. After all, it had never happened before. Ever.

It's been all over the blogosphere, and I'm getting real sick of seeing "HISTORIC!!1!" all over the place.

And a small correction to Digby: It's never happened before here. Just off the top of my head, and in no particular order, I can think of a number of countries that have had female heads of state or heads of government: Iceland, the UK, Ireland, Germany, India, Sri Lanka, Israel, Brazil, Argentina, Pakistan, the Philippines, Australia. . . .

I'm sure there are more.

Is this American exceptionalism in overdrive? Or just blinkered vision?

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