I've been noticing many white women on Fedi really going hard on blaming Muslims for Harris losing, instead of looking at the majority of white women (53%) who voted for Trump and white men (59%). Which is a fairly small gap between the two, proving (again) that Whiteness regardless of gender is what caused this continuing mess that is called the USA pretty much since its founding.
I guess Islamophobia is easier than confronting your white peers.
Coalition-building is going to be difficult if us white people refuse to look in the mirror and refuse to confront people who look like us. What is evident to everyone else is we can't be trusted.
Edit: yes, this includes "good" white people. Actions speak, deflecting blame and punching down is a purposefully chosen action.
@ErickaSimone @jf_718 I feel the same about my own white women. Disgusting.
I promise forever forward to continue BEING an ally, showing up, and fighting to elevate voices that need the support. šš½ And look fellow white women in the eye and stand the F up.
@jf_718 a lot of ādonāt these people know what will happen to themā thing, almost a belief that all immigrants should be progressive, is also rooted in the unrealistic expectation that other cultures donāt have our shitty conservatives
We totally do, and social conservatism is choosing each other globally right now
@ErickaSimone @MisuseCase @jf_718 I keep thinking about history that tells of white women who were in so many cases more vicious toward "their" slaves than their enslaver husbands were.
I have spent most of my life believing that at least *some* of that had changed, but apparently I've been naive and ignorant.
@courtcan @MisuseCase @jf_718 White women with capital would buy male slaves to rape them. Well documented that most white women with money forced Black slaves into sex work as the men did too.
They know who they are.
Dear White Women:
We absolutely MUST change. We MUST face the horrors of the past AND the present, and we MUST sit with the discomfort of it all and let it transform us.
And please don't #NotAllWhiteWomen me. I voted with joy for Kamala Harris, but at this point that doesn't matter. I still have work to do. WE still have work to do.
Teaching our daughters truth. Modeling empathy & courage. Building community with people who don't look like us.
Probably most of all, our work is to call out and speak against racism and microaggressions when we see them. And if we're not seeing them, our work is to learn to identify them.
And to consider carefully when we ourselves might be the source of them.
DO THE WORK, PEOPLE. š¤
@jf_718 they are in absolute denial.
https://newrepublic.com/post/188061/white-women-harris-trump-exit-polls
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