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irisblue

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1. Second recent article-How White Women Use Themselves as Instruments of Terror
Thu Jun 25, 2020, 05:35 PM
Jun 2020

Source--https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/opinion/racism-white-women.html


snip--"Specifically, I am enraged by white women weaponizing racial anxiety, using their white femininity to activate systems of white terror against black men. This has long been a power white women realized they had and that they exerted."

snip--"This practice, this exercise in racial extremism, has been dragged into the modern era through the weaponizing of 911, often by white women, to invoke the power and force of the police who they are fully aware are hostile to black men.

In a disturbing number of the recent cases of the police being called on black people for doing everyday, mundane things, the calls have been initiated by white women."


more at article by Charles Blow.


And there was an unhappy person complaining about the Time article before I finished the first post in this thread.


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Second recent article-How White Women Use Themselves as Instruments of Terror irisblue Jun 2020 #1
+1 n/t Laelth Jun 2020 #6
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It's a powerful meme gollygee Jun 2020 #3
Facing your own racism and bias is very very hard irisblue Jun 2020 #4
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Kick and rec. Thanks for the link The Polack MSgt Jun 2020 #8
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If You Had to Choose? qwlauren35 Jun 2020 #10
I didn't see that until just now. irisblue Jun 2020 #11
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