Stop saying, ‘Where are the feminists?’

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[–]censorshipment 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

The GC mods allowed racism and even banned us (woc). The r/blackladies mods reported a lot of racism on the GC sub and spoke directly to the co-founders of Reddit (Alexis and Steve). That's why r/gc_woc was created (and eventually banned during the second-wave of bans in 2020 since it was "transphobic" and the r/blackladies mods are libfems). The GC mods were not supportive of "intersectionality". I think they allowed white women to call out "Karens" before the sub was banned. A lot of anti-racism white women on Instagram and TikTok were calling out racist white women, too. It was marvelous to see that it was not just woc calling out Karens throughout 2020-2021.

Globally, racism is much worse than sexism. White women benefit from racism much more than men of color benefit from sexism. I say this as a black lesbian who hates men and dates white women (who are fully aware of their white privilege and suffer from white guilt 😄).

Ida B. Wells called out white women over a century ago... sad that we still must call out white women over the same shit.

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    [–]WildApples 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    It's not up to feminism to solve every single global struggle on the planet and it's not the goal of feminism to solve racism, or islamophobia either.

    Maybe not, but to succeed you need to at least not alienate women who have different life experiences and perspectives. Having our concerns dismissed like you all are doing in this thread does nothing to keep women united. You cannot transcend racial concerns while being dismissive of those concerns. Instead, you stoke the flames and further the division.

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      [–]MarkTwainiac 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      Also, since we're talking "global struggle" here, I don't get why racism is being depicted as something that only or mainly occurs between black and white people. There's lots of different kinds of racism in the world. For example, lots of east Asian people are racist towards blacks, and many black people are racist towards east Asians.

      The Middle East is rife with racism. Arab Muslims historically and today are, generally speaking, very racist towards those who are not Arab and Muslim. The Islamic Arab slave trade lasted far longer and involved far greater numbers of black Africans than the white European and Atlantic slave trade did. Even today, many in the Arab world still practice and support actual and de facto slavery of non-Arabs, especially of those with dark skin from south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa along with people from parts of east Asia like the Philippines.

      As for "Islamophobia," lots of the world's Muslims are incredibly prejudiced towards and abusive of non-Muslims. And they see non-Muslim girls and women as the lowest of the low, subhumans whom they feel it is their right to subject to the most horrific kinds of abuse. Just look at the "grooming gang" scandals in the UK. All the perps are Muslim men, mostly but not entirely of Pakistani origin and heritage. And the vast numbers of girls and women they have raped, beaten, sex trafficked and in some cases killed have been mostly white English/British, or to a lesser extent Indian girls and women from Sikh and Hindu families.