onyourleftbooob:

butchcommunist:

Honestly I think any white people, and frankly I see this mostly from white women, still going on about how Clinton lost mainly because of misogyny are being more than vaguely but less than overtly racist. Certainly misogyny was a factor in her treatment and the joy with which men of many political leanings called her everything from a shrill bitch to a fine to whatever. But the fact of the matter is that the DNC made a bet against American racism being powerful enough to get people to vote for someone they didn’t like, and it lost, and because the Clinton campaign played its cards wrong (won the popular vote but totally skipped over places that ended up going red) and because, as it turns out, racism is a powerful political motivator for enough Americans to sit aside their religious or ethical concerns about the candidate spearheading it, we have concentration centers being set up on military bases and liberals clapping about it, and women are going to die after Roe v. Wade is undone. Trumpism is popularly fueled by white anxiety about allegedly losing a country they fundamentally believe belongs to them- that’s what MAGA is about, and that’s what drove people to the polls, in addition to a supreme court seat and opposition to abortion. Look into the face of racism and stop being a coward. This is a major part of what makes this rotting country what it is. I don’t have the luxury of ignoring it.

Especially when you look at how white women votes it’s clear that their hatred of nasty invading gross brown people and blacks getting out of line and staging protests lile they were citizens, was stronger than their hatred of a man saying he could sexually assault women because he’s famous. Obviously there’s a good deal to be said about the necessity of consciousness-raising there but a lot of people who look like you are just racist. Deal with it instead of trying desperately to ignore it maybe.