Uncharitable characterizations of opponents.

Examples:

“Women had not been enslaved,” claimed Judge Armstead Brown, ignoring all African-American women.”  It seems to me that he is not ignoring African American women but saying women as a group weren't enslaved because of the fact that they were women.

Also, would opponents of the ERA consider opposing the ERA a “rite of purification,” or is she trying to make them sound a bit fanatical?