No, I never said that. But certainly, criticizing the tactic of appearing with/meeting with the Heritage Foundation - who are undeniably racist and right wing - isn’t “head girl” bullying or some crime that feminists on the left need to apologize and account for if it bothers people. And the rage some feel towards these women for voicing that critique which is a legitimate one is unsettling.
TRAs are also racist - the whole “if Black women are women then men can be women” rhetoric. It is Black women in sports overwhelmingly harmed by the loss of scholarship opportunities, and Black women are more likely to be in prisons and shelters. So I can criticize that AND ALSO be uncomfortable with the many threads on here where people cheer on right wing podcasts, articles, etc. and then get angry when others raise concerns about their broader views.
If racism doesn’t impact your life, it’s perhaps easier to dismiss it as something lesser that you don’t have to worry about. And maybe then it really doesn’t make a difference to you what other content JP or triggernometry or Daily Wire or Daily Mail or whatever put out. And that’s your prerogative.
But for me, it does matter. And if you don’t have to teach your own children from the time they are toddlers how to play outside carefully, how to put up their hands if stopped, how to defend their being in school, etc. then maybe it’s not a big deal to you and it’s easy to say it’s “purity politics” to care about the content of the media people appear on, or their views on “illegals,” or what voting for them just because “they at least know what a woman is.” But that doesn’t make other women wrong whom it does matter to, and those women don’t deserve the kind of slagging off that is becoming so common on here if you raise any concerns about what else people believe.
The racist appropriation of “woke” (a long standing term of Black consciousness) by the right wing matters to me. The killing of Black people by police matters to me, as does when the Daily Wire makes a documentary smearing George Floyd to defend police killings of people who look like me. The backlash about teaching slavery and the accurate history of racism matters to me. And so on. So, no, it doesn’t make me feel particularly comfortable that so many white women are willing to accept these views for the sake of what they see as a greater battle. Because for me, my womanhood isn’t separated from my race. I experience them together. I can’t overlook the harm done by these Foundations and podcasts and right wing men because I and my children actually am impacted by that. KJK and WoLF etc. feel differently, and that’s their strategic decision. I can even understand their logic. But it doesn’t make other women who disagree with that tactic bullies, or elitist, or in league with TRAs or whatever. And if I must turn my head and ignore it for the sake of greater battles I don’t see why other women can’t also in their turn make some compromises too. But it seems increasingly the left is asked to shut up because “it’s not politics, it’s all women” but then those saying that aren’t willing to give up any of their political allegiances for that same unity.