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I seriously want someone to explain to me the difference between Alyssa Milano and Meghan McCain, when they both use similar white feminist tatics and gaslight black women and other poc activists. They’re both very dangerous to the same group of people. Quick Thread 👇🏽
Throughout history (American History to be specific) the struggles of women are very different for white women and black women. Very often, white women have used white supremacist tactics to stomp out black and poc voices. White women’s tears have legit gotten black people killed
I’ll be linking a few articles in thus thread. Watching the tactics and language Milano has used the past 48hrs shows how dangerous some white women can be when they don’t listen to black and brown women. google.com/amp/s/www.harp…
Many black, brown and other poc women scholars have written about the gaslighting and white supremacist tatics that are used to co-opt and silence us. There are whole syllabus and uni courses dedicated to it. Here’s another article. sisteroutrider.wordpress.com/category/black…
If your feminism isn’t intersectional, then you’re doing activism wrong. If you can’t handle honest critique, get out of activism, we’re not here to feed your ego. Lives are on the line.
What is intersectionality? Welp, Scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term “intersectionality” in her insightful 1989 essay, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics.”
More here on Crenshaw’s work. isreview.org/issue/91/black…
Here’s the thing, because this can turn into a damn research analysis and I’m not going to do that on twitter dot com. White women like Milano and McCain are equally dangerous for different reasons. One is more vocal and vicious while the other is gentile. Both are deadly.
I’m not going to tag Anoa out of respect. Watching how Alyssa has attempted to gaslight an Atl activist is a study that’s been commenly used. It’s maddening and counterproductive to activism. Honey, your white women tear tactics need to be called out and stopped.
It’s 2019 and we’re sick of your shit. awesomelyluvvie.com/2018/04/weapon…
In conclusion, because I gotta end this thread, if black and brown women try to correct your bad activism please take head. There are people on the ground working. Listen to them, don’t co-opt and try to lead a movement. Figure out how you can help and learn constructively.
