If you are a rich white woman, the easiest thing you can do to be accepted in the cool social justice circles is to listen to NPR, read prestige media, "listen to and learn from Black women," internalize those opinions, & start espousing them. I know because I was this woman. 1/
https://twitter.com/AGHamilton29/status/1781533467576037561
It's really very easy to do. I did it for years - it was fun, mostly subconscious, & most of the time not even that nefarious. I learned a lot about a lot of topics. I can still talk good social justice talk, and sometimes do it to my husband because it annoys him 😂 2/
I stopped being like this around August 2020 because I saw how harmful the liberal groupthink on covid was, especially to children. But until that point, adopting progressive talking points was harmless and carried social credit - I would be accepted by the "cool girls." 3/
Of course, once you stop just blindly parroting the progressive talking points, you are quickly kicked out of the cool kids club. As I learned in August 2020, and as many progressive Jews learned in October 2023. But I digress. 4/
Back to these girls. These rich, privileged girls have adopted the social justice cause du jour - hating Israel - as a way to shed their privileged white girl status & be accepted by their social justice cool kid peers. It's really that simple. 5/
This is all performative to them. This is about rich white girls wanting to feel like they have the right opinions and will be accepted by the right people. Last year it was BLM and Defund. This year it's Free Palestine. Next year who knows. 6/
It also explains why so many of the protesters are women. Women are a) more likely to be disdained for being white & privileged; & b) more likely to seek social acceptance. Thus, women are more likely to seek to adopt a different persona as a way of gaining acceptance. /end
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