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A letter to white women from a white woman​

Dear White Women,

Does your outrage only extend to where your comfort ends?

Recently, I’ve noticed an increase in social media posts made specifically by cis-het white women on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok asking how can you protect your peace of mind during these hard times. You’ve stated not wanting to allow negativity and anger to rule your lives and wanting to protect your mental health and personal peace. Well, my question for you is this: Does your outrage only extend to where your comfort ends?

You see the thing is – our Black, Native American, Latina, Asian, Immigrant, Trans, Queer, Differently-Abled, Pregnant, Nonbinary, and Impoverished sisters don’t have the option to simply disconnect from the political, social, medical, and economic disasters that we’re facing. In the first week of Trump’s populist oligarchical dictatorship he’s already moved to removed us from WHO, begun the withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, mandated an end to birthright citizenship (which includes the intention to end birthright citizenship protections for Immigrants, Native American Tribes, Black Americans, etc.), federally denied and barred the existence and service of trans and nonbinary people, ended DEI initiatives and federal protections, pardoned 1500 January 6th terrorists, pardoned 23 radical Anti-Choice extremists, and ended Executive Order 14087 which lowered prescription drug prices. Dictator Trump also revoked over 70 of Biden’s executive orders from 2020 that protected the rights, dignity, and safety of millions of Americans. These include the revocation of sex discrimination that would include sexual orientation and gender identity, ended the order that requires executive branch appointees to sign an ethics pledge, and ended the order that banned the renewal of private prison contracts. He also declared a national border crisis, effectively enabling ICE agents and racist bounty hunters to unlawfully steal children and families from private businesses, their homes, schools, and churches! This list doesn’t even begin to fully reflect the extent of his tyranny. So again I ask you: Does your outrage only extend to where your comfort ends?

The absolute PRIVILEGE that it is to simply turn off the news, stay off of social media, and disengage from the fight is not something our sisters have! That is uniquely white women’s privilege. Our proximity to white male supremacy and our historical submission to the patriarchy gives us the privilege of turning away for the sake of our own peace of mind. Our marginalized sisters and nonbinary folks do not have the same privilege to do so! I’m not going to hold your hand when I tell you this – If your idea of fighting injustice is blue bracelets, safety pins, and coded speech in social media posts, then your outrage is undeniably performative. We, as cis-het white women, benefit the most from our white privilege and we are cowards to neglect the fight for sake of our own peace! Does your outrage only extend to where your comfort ends?!

Marginalized women, specifically Black Women, have carried the torch of feminist activism and liberation forever. Black Women have been fighting for the rights, safety, and progress of ALL women, even when they’ve been betrayed, neglected, and subjugated by white women. Black Women are the leaders! Black Women are the movement! As a white woman, I can’t speak for all Black Women, but I have a strong feeling that they are sick and tired of our entitled, privileged performative anger. They are TIRED of carrying the weight of this fight. So how dare we as white women ask how WE can feel better!! Our sisters DO NOT have that option – so neither do we! Now is not the time for your submission, disengagement, or selfishness. It’s time to use your privilege and proximity to white men to FIGHT! I’ll ask you again: Does your outrage only extend to where your comfort ends?!

White women, I challenge you to move beyond the performative and selective outrage and step into the fight. Get uncomfortable and stay uncomfortable! Get angry! Let it burn so damn hot in you that you cannot stomach to turn away from the injustice and suffering others are facing! Be loud! Be aggressive! Be in the fight with every part of yourself. Don’t you dare hide away from the reality that we’re all facing and the suffering that occurs because of your complacency. And lastly, don’t you dare excuse your submission and cowardice as protecting your peace when our marginalized sisters suffer the most because of it! If you’re going to be about it, BE ABOUT IT! I’ll ask you one final time: DOES YOUR OUTAGE ONLY EXTEND TO WHERE YOUR COMFORT ENDS?

Find your courage and your anger.

Signed,
An Angry White Woman
 
I'm not going to address any of this racial schizo-post.
Signed,
An Angry White Woman
Brooke McCoy is an interdisciplinary studies senior from Geismar, La.
I'm just going to point out that you are being upbraided by a lunatic.
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Fuck you.

All of those "marginalized" people never did nor never would do anything for me. They can kiss my lily white ass.

And as for the twat who wrote this: she can eat me out until I'm dry. I don't owe anyone performative simpdom known as being an "ally". Because according to people like you, I'm only allowed to talk until I'm told to sit down and shut up, lest I be "centering" myself.

I am the center of my own fucking universe, and if your life sucks, maybe you should spend time figuring out why all of these pet victims you have should be considered important to me. Until then, find yourself a rusty fuck and use it vigorously on yourself.
 
You see the thing is – our Black, Native American, Latina, Asian, Immigrant, Trans, Queer, Differently-Abled, Pregnant, Nonbinary, and Impoverished sisters don’t have the option to simply disconnect from the political, social, medical, and economic disasters that we’re facing.
I love the implication that white women can't be any of these things. Actually, one of my favorite aspects of progressivism is the idea that white poor don't exist, or if they do, it's completely due to their own moral failings, unlike poor people of all other races.
 

Wokespeak. Opinion automatically discarded.

The absolute PRIVILEGE that it is to simply turn off the news, stay off of social media, and disengage from the fight is not something our sisters have! That is uniquely white women’s privilege.

Bitch, literally anyone can say "Fuck you TikTok. I've had enough. " and go take a walk. In fact, I highly recommend you try it. You're on the internet too much. If you cared so much about activism you'd be out there doing something more important than bitching on the internet.
 
Really living up to this old classic, I see.
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Trump has buckbroken useless bureaucrats, trannies, and world leaders in record time but female Democrats have been buckbroken the hardest. They are thoroughly demoralized. Go ahead and show the internet how mad you are with TikTok videos. You're merely screaming inside an echo chamber, your own lunatic caterwauling reverberating back to you.
 

A letter to white women from a white woman​

By the looks of the picture, it's an actual woman, although the tone of this letter heavily suggests "troon."

Dear White Women,

Does your outrage only extend to where your comfort ends?

Yes, as that's all I can afford to get angry about. if you give me an easy 100K /yr job, I'll have plenty of time to write about shit that's personally irrelevant to my life.
Recently, I’ve noticed an increase in social media posts made specifically by cis-het white women on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok asking how can you protect your peace of mind during these hard times. You’ve stated not wanting to allow negativity and anger to rule your lives and wanting to protect your mental health and personal peace. Well, my question for you is this: Does your outrage only extend to where your comfort ends?
Again, yes. I wouldn't be concerned about the wealthy white women worried about going Super Saiyin over Trump's election. They aren't going to do shit in real life. That would threaten their comfy existence.

You see the thing is – our Black, Native American, Latina, Asian, Immigrant, Trans, Queer, Differently-Abled, Pregnant, Nonbinary, and Impoverished sisters
...all of whom are from different groups with different interests and are comprised of individuals who may or may not share the same politics. Your choosing to lump them all together just shows what a particularly ignorant wealthy white woman you are....

don’t have the option to simply disconnect from the political, social, medical, and economic disasters that we’re facing.

---you mean the ones caused by electing a vegetable to office and letting him rubber stamp his corporate and political masters' destructive policies?

In the first week of Trump’s populist oligarchical dictatorship he’s already moved to removed us from WHO,
...who poisoned millions with an untested "vaccine". The band, "The WHO" would have handled that Covid clusterfuck better...

begun the withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement,
...which was crafted by the UN, a notoriously corrupt organization. It's also already been blown off by China, the world's biggest polluter, so it basically does nothing.

mandated an end to birthright citizenship
...which shouldn't exist in any first world nation that needs skilled workers, not farm-steaders and ditch-diggers...

(which includes the intention to end birthright citizenship protections for Immigrants, Native American Tribes, Black Americans, etc.)
...who suffer no threat of being kicked out of the country due to their usefulness as Civil Rights martyrs that the Democrats can beat Whitey over the head with.

, federally denied and barred the existence and service of trans and nonbinary people,
...mentally ill freaks who are a liability to any country...

ended DEI initiatives and federal protections,
...illegal programs that discriminated against whites and males....
pardoned 1500 January 6th terrorists,
...whose only crime was making a few Congresscritters piss themselves...
pardoned 23 radical Anti-Choice extremists, and ended Executive Order 14087 which lowered prescription drug prices.
...older Americans are often over-prescribed prescription drugs anyway...

Dictator Trump also revoked over 70 of Biden’s executive orders from 2020 that protected the rights, dignity, and safety of millions of Americans. These include the revocation of sex discrimination that would include sexual orientation and gender identity,
"Sex discrimination" meaning, "being able to legally call troons troons without being sent to a gulag.

ended the order that requires executive branch appointees to sign an ethics pledge,
...Which sounds an awful lot like being forced to swear fealty to a religion to me....

and ended the order that banned the renewal of private prison contracts. He also declared a national border crisis, effectively enabling ICE agents and racist bounty hunters to unlawfully steal children and families from private businesses, their homes, schools, and churches!
It's not unlawful. They don't have a legal right to be here. Those who smuggle them in and support them are the criminals.

This list doesn’t even begin to fully reflect the extent of his tyranny. So again I ask you: Does your outrage only extend to where your comfort ends?
Yes. I care about the people who break the laws of my country and turn it into a worse place to live in. People like you.
The absolute PRIVILEGE that it is to simply turn off the news, stay off of social media, and disengage from the fight is not something our sisters have! That is uniquely white women’s privilege.
No. White women's privilege is to scoop out all parts of the brain that deal with history, practical skills, and classical culture and replace it with Taylor Swift songs, wine drinking, and true crime podcasts that use the phrase "I've got Full. Body. Chills..."

Our proximity to white male supremacy and our historical submission to the patriarchy gives us the privilege of turning away for the sake of our own peace of mind. Our marginalized sisters and nonbinary folks do not have the same privilege to do so! I’m not going to hold your hand when I tell you this – If your idea of fighting injustice is blue bracelets, safety pins, and coded speech in social media posts, then your outrage is undeniably performative. We, as cis-het white women, benefit the most from our white privilege and we are cowards to neglect the fight for sake of our own peace! Does your outrage only extend to where your comfort ends?!
At least we know an AI didn't write this. No machine could be this deranged...

Marginalized women, specifically Black Women, have carried the torch of feminist activism and liberation forever. Black Women have been fighting for the rights, safety, and progress of ALL women, even when they’ve been betrayed, neglected, and subjugated by white women.
Bullshit. The ones at the DMV treat me like dogcrap. All of the other ones pretty much ignore my white woman ass.

Black Women are the leaders! Black Women are the movement! As a white woman, I can’t speak for all Black Women, but I have a strong feeling that they are sick and tired of our entitled, privileged performative anger.
They're certainly tired of your overwrought, Cluster of Bees behavior...

They are TIRED of carrying the weight of this fight. So how dare we as white women ask how WE can feel better!! Our sisters DO NOT have that option – so neither do we! Now is not the time for your submission, disengagement, or selfishness. It’s time to use your privilege and proximity to white men to FIGHT! I’ll ask you again: Does your outrage only extend to where your comfort ends?!
I'd rather eat my shoes than jeopardize my relationship with the useful men of my family by shouting nonsense at them. The day I can get a black woman to spend 45 minutes changing out my rusted-stuck flat tires for a pan of brownies and a beer is the day I join your crazy=ass movement.
White women, I challenge you to move beyond the performative and selective outrage and step into the fight. Get uncomfortable and stay uncomfortable! Get angry! Let it burn so damn hot in you that you cannot stomach to turn away from the injustice and suffering others are facing! Be loud! Be aggressive! Be in the fight with every part of yourself. Don’t you dare hide away from the reality that we’re all facing and the suffering that occurs because of your complacency. And lastly, don’t you dare excuse your submission and cowardice as protecting your peace when our marginalized sisters suffer the most because of it! If you’re going to be about it, BE ABOUT IT!

No.
I’ll ask you one final time: DOES YOUR OUTAGE ONLY EXTEND TO WHERE YOUR COMFORT ENDS?
Yes.
Find your courage and your anger.

Signed,
An Angry White Woman

Bite Me,
Signed,
A 1920s Flapper with No Shits to Give.
 
The narcissism required for these monolithic screeds is off the charts. If a letter like this arrives from anywhere that isnt an asylum, call the cops.

Be loud! Be aggressive! Be in the fight with every part of yourself. Don’t you dare hide away from the reality that we’re all facing and the suffering that occurs because of your complacency.
Yeah, these are the best traits for a mother and wife. What a great fuckin idea. If your kids see you yelling and acting niggerish you should be ASHAMED. Even once is too many times.
 
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