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White women- it's all your fault

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WeldMeDaphne · 19/08/2017 22:27

I will preface this by saying that I am indeed a white woman. And I realise this affords me a lot of privilege.
Among a lot of the rhetoric around the Events unfolding in the US (mostly Charlottesville), I've seen a number of open letters to white women about our complicity in the neo-nazi and white supremacist movement in the US and elsewhere. Clearly those women marching last week on the nazi side were white, but there was a lot of suggestion that those white women not marching but associated with men marching (wives girlfriends etc) were just as culpable as the men wielding torches and assault rifles. I guess I would like some help understanding how this is a white woman issue rather than the white men being responsible for their own actions? I get that one of those pieces said those men are going home to pie cooked by their doting wives but I just feel as though a man who holds those views and has no issue with demonstrating them publically is unlikely to be a caring loving husband?
I am fully prepared to listen to all view points and I totally understand that the people on these marches are white, but they're mostly men, right? Sonhow is this women's fault?

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NoLoveofMine · 19/08/2017 22:34

I completely agree with you and two of my closest friends - who are WOC - have made these points to me on a few issues.

dudsville · 19/08/2017 22:32

I'm not aware of the argument. Everything is multifaceted. People who cause pain and suffering are directly responsible for their actions. People who associate with people who cause pain and suffering without standing up or moving away can be linked to those actions. We'll never know if they are coerced, supporters or actively working to help solve the problem.

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