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RedWedge

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25. Your welcome.

Reply to yallerdawg (Reply #21)

Tue Jan 24, 2017, 05:19 PM

Jan 2017

Humans have great power to imagine and empathize with other people's experiences, but we have to be reminded to do it. "My feminism will be intersectional or it will be bullshit" is a quick-and-handy reminder.

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"White Women Elected Trump" [View all] yallerdawg Jan 2017 OP

Key point to this... HopeAgain Jan 2017 #1

No FBI and Putin triron Jan 2017 #3

Good Article Gothmog Jan 2017 #2

Any resistance must be intersectional n/t snpsmom Jan 2017 #4

Resistance is resistance Phoenix61 Jan 2017 #6

An uncomfortable truth; the sooner we get comfortable with it, the sooner intersectional RedWedge Jan 2017 #5

What is it with the new "intersectional" buzzword thing? Maru Kitteh Jan 2017 #12

It's not new. Its increasing use on DU reflects a greater awareness of the concept. RedWedge Jan 2017 #16

Thank you for that explanation and link. yallerdawg Jan 2017 #21

Your welcome. RedWedge Jan 2017 #25

Uh no. Been here long time. All the sudden it's everywhere, being dragged in from somewhere and Maru Kitteh Jan 2017 #23

The term can definitely be used to delegitimize the marches. It can also be used to illustrate how RedWedge Jan 2017 #24

Great link! thucythucy Jan 2017 #29

The sign is accurate. Now, if I had posted that here a week ago.... Eleanors38 Jan 2017 #7

A number of us at DU warned about this for a couple of years. yallerdawg Jan 2017 #8

Warned about what? n/t seaglass Jan 2017 #9

White women electing that idiot. yallerdawg Jan 2017 #11

I don't think the white women who elected Trump were Democrats, though some who seaglass Jan 2017 #20

I speak obliquely of these matters in DU, too much of a minefield. Eleanors38 Jan 2017 #10

I have lived in Red States most of my life. yallerdawg Jan 2017 #13

Well said emulatorloo Jan 2017 #14

They had a ton of help... Wounded Bear Jan 2017 #15

Hopefully, especially with what is about to happen... yallerdawg Jan 2017 #17

This paragraph practically leapt off the page The Polack MSgt Jan 2017 #18

White men elected Trump BainsBane Jan 2017 #19

When we go to the "Men's March on Washington" ... yallerdawg Jan 2017 #22

I encounter racist Trump supporting white women at every turn outside of DU in comments m-lekktor Jan 2017 #26

Why single out white women? White men voted for him at a higher rate Fresh_Start Jan 2017 #27

White feminists tend to be pretty self-congratulatory about a lot of things, and being reminded that RedWedge Jan 2017 #28

but white women don't make excuses for them as white men do for the fae larger number of white men JI7 Jan 2017 #32

Honestly, I have no idea why men do what they do most of the time. RedWedge Jan 2017 #34

at least nobody is defending them. and all the white dem women say it's because of racism sexism JI7 Jan 2017 #30

This isn't about men. yallerdawg Jan 2017 #33

i do listen and understand and i see Trump is a bigot which was very appealing to his voters JI7 Jan 2017 #35

Sounds like she got an honest response and discussion from her sign, good for her !!!! uponit7771 Jan 2017 #31

It actually makes sense loyalsister Jan 2017 #36

A pictures worth a thousand words. yallerdawg Jan 2017 #37

Brutal truth loyalsister Jan 2017 #38

K&R Solly Mack Jan 2017 #39