Another word for Karens

How insulting is this?

Is the article as insulting as the tweet? Pretty much. What’s the argument? That the fact that a slim majority of white women usually vote Republican=white women vote Republican.

Exit polling indicates that Trump’s support had increased among White women, with some major polls putting it at 55 percent.

…White women are not a swing voting bloc. In the past 18 presidential elections, they have repeatedly voted for the Republican candidate, breaking only for Lyndon B. Johnson and for Bill Clinton’s second term.

That is, a slim majority of them have. What about white men? Oh look, a swan.

This is because, as a political force, White female rage has long been better at enforcing patriarchal norms than dismantling them. Why? Quite frankly, White women benefit from the status quo, while change would require burning down that system and building a new one — one where they and their children might lose the shared superiority and protection they get by being attached to powerful White men.

But why are we singling out white women? What about those white men? Oh look, a swan.

Sociologist Joseph O. Jewell has described the role White women played in maintaining institutional racism in the late 19th century; his work examines specific instances of what he calls “social mothering” in San Francisco and New Orleans, when White mothers pushed policies that established school segregation.

Of course; and, white men?

Little has changed. Indeed today, that logic is more insidious: To many White women, equality means dominating the system like men rather than dismantling it to make it fair for everyone.

Speaking of men…what about men? Why are we just focusing on women?

Because Amy Cooper, Lyz Lenz explains.

Of course, all women, conservative and liberal, at all levels of society, face real discrimination and sexism — but that makes donning the mantle of victimhood while perpetuating the patriarchy an even more cynical game.

But it’s not at all cynical to call a slim majority of white women “white women” and to forget to check how many white men vote Republican.

As we continue to sift through the wreckage of the Trump years, a process that should not stop on Jan. 20, the Democratic Party should stop wasting so much time on the lost cause of suburban wine moms and start listening to the voices that form the core of the party’s base.

Or to put it another way – people who are already comfortable and safe are more likely to vote Republican, so the Democratic Party should stop wasting so much time on the lost cause of prosperous white people and start listening to the voices that form the core of the party’s base. That makes sense; singling out white women not so much. (Referring to them as “wine moms” even less.)

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