Scott Madin

if your anti-racist rhetoric boils down to "women are naturally skilled deceptive manipulators" then what are we even doing here

that would be an odd take to have bc terrible cis men lie and manipulate ALL THE TIME. they straight-up lie, they pretend ignorance, the whole nine!!

but some white women did a tiktok challenge where they pretended to cry, you see

oH. because they showed a peek behind the curtain of the emotional mastery required to survive under patriarchy?? men HATE this

it's literally just acting! it's just acting. everyone can do acting. it's not a "white women" thing.

there's an OBSESSION on left twitter with the idea that white women are constantly using crocodile tears to get Black folks killed but it seems to me that the people who do the violence have some agency in this equation? white men are not just a gun that white women aim and fire?

yeah I would agree. like, of course there’s a history to this dynamic and it has existed! but violent white men have been using “protect the pure womanhood” as an excuse for centuries regardless! & that’s not necessarily the main dynamic at play in a lot of police shootings now.

and making that framing encompass ALL of police violence flattens the issue when there are other factors at play. In videos of these encounters the masculinity & power of white cops is clearly validated by abusing Black men! white women don’t necessarily enter into it every time