Anti-gay, anti-Philippines, anti-"west coast liberals"

While flipping through the channels, I stop on someone who caught my eye. A young, 30-something (36 to be exact) Asian American woman. She wore a brightly foral-colored collared shirt with big hoop earrings. She was presenting on C-Span. "Oo0hhh, and Asian American woman on c-span!" I thought. So, I continued watching.

To my amazement, this Pilipina/pinay/pilipina-american was presenting, nay key-note speaker for the Young Republican Foundation conference. The face of Fox news, columnist, right-winged ideals was starring back at me..but she looked like me. Or, at least someone I could have grown up with...an ate, or "aunty"...

She raged on about the horrible protests at UCSanta Cruz that pushed "the hard working military recruiters" off campus; "they have the right to be there!" she argues. She raged on about anti-immigration laws and the liberal's inability to defend threats within "our own homes".

Anti-gay marriage articles fly through the blogosphere; along with her feelings of "shame for [her] parent's native land" because the Philippines decided to pull out of the war. Along with the barrage of questions, one young woman asks about being a feminist (liberal feminist vs. conservative feminist) and who are conservative feminists to note. Malkin answers, "those like myself, laura doyle, etc..."

Conservative Feminist. Conservative. Feminist. Conservative Feminist?? Seems so contradictory. I don't appreciate conservatives on my ovaries, thank you very much. It hurts my menstral cycles and makes me angry.

On another note, Margaret Cho, dear Margaret Cho had interesting words for her as well:
"Her story reminds me of the documentary by Errol Morris, Mr. Death. Mr. Death is a nerdy electric chair specialist who boasted an expertise on all things related to execution. He was hired by a white supremacist organization to go to Germany and disprove the existence of concentration camps. Dr. Death had never had attention in his life. He was this dorky academic who had spent most of his life under the radar. Suddenly, he was thrust into the spotlight. Never mind it was the gaze of racist, hateful, ridiculous white supremacists, The accolades were no less seductive. It is a tragic tale of a man deprived of recognition to the point where he will attempt to revise history in order to receive some kind of acknowledgement. Dr. Death becomes the authority of Holocaust revisionism. He serves the white supremacist agenda by backing up their hokey theory and he gains redemption for his years as a who cares nobody. Who could blame Malkin for wanting to follow in those footsteps?

The terrible thing about invisibility is the lengths that we will go to in order to be seen. If spouting racist propaganda and being a tool for the conservatives are worth the right to exist in the monochromatic world of right wing political pandering then I applaud Malkin's effort. She inflames the need to uphold the ideals of equality and fairness, and she puts a new face on hate. I'd be happy to argue with someone who looks a bit like me for a change.

African Americans have Clarence Thomas and Condoleeza Rice. There's a new race traitor on the block, and her name's Michelle!"
(to read more: http://www.margaretcho.com/blog/indefenseofmichellemalkin.htm)

It's disturbing, intriguing, and scary to see someone who looks like you hate who you are.