mama.JPGHere is a story from AOL News about Michelle Obama’s planned June 18 appearance as a guest host on The View.

Here is an article on Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama by our very own Jane at HuffPost (the FDL version is here).

Now look at the comments threads and compare them.

Here are my thoughts:

1) The dirty hippies at HuffPost and FDL are far nicer on average than the AOL commenters, who seem to combine the worst of both sexism and racism. Then again, both FDL and HufPost have actual real-time moderators.

2) Where’s the free pass that the Obamas are supposedly getting because of their color? I’m certainly not seeing it.

3) Is it still sexist to call a woman a "PRIMATE APE LIKE UGLY A** NAPPY HEADED HO" (or otherwise imply that she’s a prostitute), or a "bitch", if she’s black? Or to repeatedly call her "ugly" especially when she most manifestly is not? Apparently not, if the people in the AOL comments threads are any evidence.

All this is by way of me asking you, the FDL readers, to try and make our mods’ jobs as easy as possible and to not be like the AOL people. Thanks!

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