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In reply to the discussion: a woman whose anger needs to be paid attention to [View all]wnylib
(24,789 posts)how we got here. She has assumed that all White women are responsible for the outcome because she has lumped all White women into one group.
And yet, we know that Latino support for Trump, especially among Latino men, increased in this election. We also know that there was voter suppression in the form of removing eligible voters from the rolls. There were bomb threats at some locations. Yes, those sites reopened after being checked, but how many people remained at those polls to vote after the site was cleared? How many people heard of the threat and stayed away?
Why did Harris get less support among Black voters than Biden did? Did White women cause that?
I can understand anger over the White women who voted for Trump. Black people are not the only ones who are angry about the outcome. Extending anger to include White women who voted for Harris is divisive and does not an answer the question of how we got here. It does not even ask the question.
Would she now reject unity in resisting the the racist, misogynistic government that is looming over all of us and reject unity in helping the people who will be most harmed by it?