All our fault
It’s all Karens’ white women’s fault. All of it.
Stupid bitches. Who cares what happens to us?
Ok! Hey all white women friends – WE ARE BEING PLAYED TO HELP IN THE MAINTENANCE OF WHITE SUPREMACY. I DON’T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS EXCEPT THAT EVERYTHING IS OUR FAULT. FIX IT!
I know, right? And what’s really impressive are the women of color — stoic, steadfast, of strong blood and nerve, the wise Mothers of the Earth who even now hear the ancient call of Nature uncorrupted by Western civilization, their hearts as pure and unsullied as they were in their mysterious tribal lands. Honor them — and prevent White Supremacy!
Meghan Murphy had this hateful woman’s number years ago https://quillette.com/2018/04/23/canadas-twitter-mobs-left-wing-hypocrisy/
As for the “real fears that people should have” garbage —- yeah, some pick-me toady-to-the-men WHITE WOMAN is here to toadysplain to other white women what we are allowed to be afraid of because we lesser white woman certainly cannot take in our own life experiences and observations of the world at large to come to any ideas about our own lives………….
Sastra, apparently ‘of colour’ is just sooo yesterday. Painfully wokeperson Nora, who seems to be in charge of setting the new rules over what and how we think, speak and act, has deccreed that ‘racialized’ is the wokely approved term.
I didn’t even know that ‘racialized’ is a word, but if it is then it’s use is a poor choice by Nora.
‘-ize’ as a verb suffix means ‘made’ or ‘become’, as in ‘radicalize’ or ‘personalize’, or to be treated in a certain way, such as ‘immunize’. So Nora is either saying that these ‘racialized’ people have been made to be racial or have become racial (which makes no sense), or that she treats people as a race rather than as individuals (and I strongly suspect that this is exactly how Nora sees people of colour: not as people but as a race she arbitrarily assigns to them according to their colour). Nora, therefore, is a racist.
And what the Hell is the ‘white women-driven parent narrative over COVID? Is Nora suggesting that mothers of colour (or ‘racialized’ mothers) don’t care about their own childrens’ health? Nora is looking more racist the more one reads her drivel.
I’ve seen “racialize” plenty in reference to policing and politics but have never seen it applied to people… That’s quite strange.
Fun things here:
1) Wokeness/CRT views people as “racialized” rather than being of a particular race. This is neither typo nor poor word choice on her part. Rather, it is exactly the way the woke understand the world: as interacting systems of discourse that impose “race” (among other things) on groups of (not individual) people. It is the discursive systems that racialize. There is nothing, literally nothing, outside of the discourse.
2) White women’s fears drive policing, the economy, and politics. White women are apparently the most powerful force in the nation. Why did the DJIA jump? White women. Why did Trump win? White women. Why did Obama win twice before him? White women. Why did the Civil Rights movement succeed? White women. Why are our taxes what they are? White women. Damn. Being a white woman is fucking awesome!
3) White women’s fears are society’s fears. But if S is one of a society’s fears, then we should expect S to be a fear of most, if not all, people in the society. So S is reasonably a black woman’s fear, a brown woman’s fear, and a white man’s fear.
4) White women’s fears are not real issues. It’s clear that white women are either very stupid or very evil. If they’re afraid of things that aren’t real, then they’re stupid. If they’re not actually afraid of those things but pretend to be while wielding the power mentioned in (2) and (3), then they’re evil.
5) White women’s fears are not the fears we should have. If a white woman is afraid of something, that’s a dead certain indicator that it’s not something to fear. So the next time a white woman expresses fear, know that you’ve just learned something about the world: whatever it is she’s afraid of is perfectly safe.
I suspect I am not the only one who has no idea what she’s complaining about. Just some general sense that white women are bad because they unleash white men on non-white people or something. Even when she appears to get specific with COVID-19, she just throws out some words (“pods”! “complaints”!) as Acolyte notes.
Maybe if she gave one single clear example of “white women” as a group behaving inappropriately…?
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But Skeletor, white women necessarily behave inappropriately, like
#define white_woman “inappropriate”
That’s just how the ideology works. The preprocessor then does a replacement whenever it sees white_woman. So if it sees
white woman fears
it rewrites it as
inappropriate fears
Skeletor, it used to be about white women siccing white men on people of color, but now it seems almost like the claim is that white women are the ones actually doing everything. Yes, driving policing is siccing white men (even when the police officer is not white?) on people of color.
But I was at a talk not too long ago (but before COVID, so at least several months) where the claim seemed to be that white women were literally the ones going around perpetrating violence on black men, such as stabbing, shooting, etc. I don’t think people have totally gone there yet, but we seem to be taking a new leap, where white men are no longer part of the equation, it’s just all white women, and literally, all white women, as in every white woman (except the one woke person who is explaining all this to us, of course, since they usually seem to be white themselves).
Of course, the explaining white woman would probably say she is part of the problem, she just sees the problem and feels guilty enough to want to fix it. But deep down, she feels it is other white women, she just won’t admit it…that’s my opinion. But it’s just my opinion. She really might feel super guilty.
iknklast:
I think she feels super guilty. She feels super guilty for her actual racist thoughts and, as a way of mitigating that sensation of guilt, latches onto the idea and narrative that all white people are secretly racist. That way, being racist is normal, and her accountability is amortized over the entire population.
It’s sort of like a “but everybody’s doing it” excuse.
White women are going around stabbing Black men? Well, they should cut that right out!
(I assume this is literally happening, in the new sense of “literally” which means “not literally”. And I assume this is actually happening, in the sense that questioning a transgender person’s beliefs is “actual” violence.)
Shorter Nora: white women are the designated scapegoats. It seems to escape her that while white people are to blame for a large amount of the social ills of many nations, there is a subdivision within that group – male, female – and the power held by white people largely resides in the former.
#3 – Acolyte of Sagan – The OED defines “racialize” as “[t]o impose a racial interpretation on; to cause to become racist in attitude, behaviour, or structure; to categorize or divide according to race.” So not a good thing, and perhaps not quite what Ms Leroto meant. First recorded use 1917.
“White women’s fears”? What does that even mean?
I can think of some fears that women of color might have that white women wouldn’t necessarily have, but I don’t know of any fears that women generally, including white women, feel that non-white women don’t also feel. Why are white women not justified in feeling any fears about anything? What’s unjustified about them, since all other women are allowed to fear these things?
The Revenge of the Random Acquaintance of the Ex-Colleague of the Son of the Bride of Dear Muslima. The Original wasn’t even good…
How I interpret Nora:
She has fallen for the age-old propaganda from the upper classes which says that we should keep an eye open for others of our station taking more than their fair share of the crumbs which fall from the masters’ table; we should never dare to raise our eyes to the feast happening above us.
Skeletor @
Well, It did happen! In a play. Written about 40 some years ago. (maybe 50; I’m older than I often realize – or, really, it’s that the distance between now and my youth is longer ago than I realize, even though I am aware of my age) A play that took stereotypes of white women and black men and turned them on their head! A play that was written symbolically! But must now be interpreted literally! Because if a black man writes a play about white women, it must be taken as literal, actual, gospel truth in all ways.Or whatever. It was a good play, maybe a great play, but I don’t think it was meant to be taken as white women stabbing random black men on trains..