“‘I came to slay, bitch. When he f-ed me good I take his ass to Red Lobster.’ That happens to be from Beyoncé, her favorite performer. Whom she says she idolizes and would like to imitate. There’s a lot of hypocrisy, in Hillary Clinton expressing such horror at language on the bus.”

A couple of points to make here.

First, I am not familiar with the entire track this lyric is from (but I believe it’s from “Formation”), so I don’t know the context, but based on this snippet, I’d say this is about consensual sex. Consensual sex and sexual assault are two completely different things.

Second, even if Hillary is a fan of Beyonce, that’s not a guarantee that she’s wild about every recording Beyonce has ever done (I don’t know how Hillary feels about “Formation” — she may love it, she may hate it, or she may feel indifferent about it). Hey, I grew up loving the Beatles. However, the lyrics to “Run For Your Life” on their Rubber Soul album were offensive to me, and they still are. It’s possible to be a fan of an artist and not be a fan of absolutely everything they do (fortunately, the Beatles abandoned their glorification of domestic abuse when they did the song “Getting Better” for their Sgt. Pepper album a couple of years later).

Third, it’s not the “language” in the Access Hollywood tape that we found offensive. It was the suggestion that sexual assault is OK. Anyone who doesn’t understand that is basically self-identifying as one of the irredeemable “deplorables” that Hillary was talking about.