Wearing white is beautiful and pure — as long as your a Democrat whose name is Hillary Clinton.
But if you’re Melania Trump, who wore white while delivering a plagiarized speech at the RNC, no such luck. For her, white is symptomatic of a political party that prefers white people to voters whose skin is brown or black.
Both women donned white for their respective convention speeches. Hillary wore a Ralph Lauren pantsuit while Melania chose a cotton-silk “Margot” dress from Net-a-Porter.
Hillary has been drafted for sainthood in the New York Times. Melania, who recently appeared nude in the New York Post, has essentially been portrayed as a racist symbol in Philly.com.
The discrepancy was first alluded to in Reddit.
In the New York Times, writer Vanessa Friedman says white is associated with the “suffragist movement.” She wrote that white is the “emblem of purity” and “symbolizes the quality of our purpose.” Elle points out that white is the color Wellesley students wear to graduation and reunions. So it must be positive, right? Guardian says Hillary’s white “carries with it an additional feminist meaning.” Clinton graduated from Wellesley in 1969.
Melanie’s white, meanwhile, is evil in that it depicts the attitude that “in the GOP, white is always right.” Melania’s white was, according to Philly.com, a “not-so-subliminal billboard for the Trumpian view of an ideal America.”
Even the headline on a story about Melania’s white dress is called “a scary statement.”
The message in short is entirely crazy:
Hillary’s white: good. Melania’s white: satanic.
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