In case you missed my thread, I have TIME today for Ms. Rose McGowan & her "White Women First" liberation politicshttp://www.theroot.com/solidarityisforwhitewomen-part-2-on-rose-mcgowan-and-1819604768 …
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(Hell that is how most of us got here, but I digress)
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And it is well-documented that White feminist thought & direct action often has less to do with actual action and more--
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--to do with shock value and general rebellion against the purity they're expected to exemplify and uphold.
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"Free The Nipples" is a famous example of this.
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So using that reliance on shock value and etc, it makes sense that McGowan would fix her mouth to compare [White] women to niggers.
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Ideally, said tweet was supposed to shock some other White person--preferably a non-woman--into being horrified at the idea of WW being--
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--treated just like niggers.
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Even though that whole pretense is a false dichotomy and erases Black women and Black people from our own goddamn struggle.
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Which is why McGowan's apology was fucking shit.
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Her tweet employing that slur was specific. And her comparison was supposed to inspire a specific type of horror in other White people.
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And above all, her false equivalency disrespected and disregarded a specific group of people: BLACK WOMEN.
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With that being the case, fuck all this "POC" noise.
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Rose didn't use a POC-general slur. She used a Black one. And that's who should be getting AND accepting apologies here.
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"As a WOC, I felt that what Rose did--" "As a POC, I felt that what Rose did--"pic.twitter.com/WFW9iaoPwe
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Shut the hell up. You're not Black, no one asked you.
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Please save your oxygen & for once go advocate for yourselves (on your own time) rather than demanding Black people (read:BW) do it for you.pic.twitter.com/2fXGpoCHdq
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P.S. The title for this piece came from
@Karnythia's original#SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen tag so put some respeck on her name, k?pic.twitter.com/6tyekZUJtQShow this thread -
And Addendum: Just so we're clear, White women aren't the only folx who display anti-Blackness by co-opting language specifically--
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--designed to fight anti-Black oppression.
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Non-Black WOC are on the hook for this BS too.
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Case in point: Constance Wu and her Blackface comments. I haven't forgotten.
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P.S.S Here's another good discussion about McGowan and White feminism. https://twitter.com/teakturn/status/920363988654927873 …
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P.S.S.S: Ava DuVernay, Tessa Thompson, and plenty of other WOC in H-Wood explain why intersectionality is neededhttp://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a13033229/ava-duvernay-women-in-hollywood-2017-speech/ …
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