I wonder what gave them that idea?

Many of Hillary Clinton's supporters find it incomprehensible that many Americans would find it insulting to claim that it's as big of a deal to elect a white woman as it is to elect a black man to public office:

They are mad that everyone believes them to be old, white and racist. They are mad at the people they thought were supposed to be progressives for treating them badly.

Well, there are consequences to all but equating the "historical plight" of white women in America to what blacks have been through.