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This post is about racism and fascism. I said what I said.

About half of all Black people, are Black women, who also suffer from racism and fascism. Much of the violence, fascism, and racism experienced by Black men and women, comes from white women. So I reject any and all attempts to derail conversations about racism and fascism into color-blind conversations about gender.

If you want to talk about the interplay between women, racism, and fascism, we can do that, but you probably won't like what you learn.

If you read the book, "They were her property." You'll get an accurate picture of how much of US racism white women were responsible for. The answer is: "About half." [Content warning: you cannot unlearn this stuff].

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/113971558481669177

That was slavery, but what about today? If you do the math, you'll confirm that white women are not "less likely to vote for fascists." That's a lie. In 2024, the number of Trump votes that came from white men and white women, was about the same. White men are slightly less likely to show up to vote, but slightly more likely to vote for fascists when they do show up. Conversely, white women are slightly more likely to turn up to vote, but slightly less likely to vote for fascists when they do. Net result, they contribute about the same number of fashy votes.

@mekkaokereke Right! 💯, raise **all the boats!**
Win-win-win everybody wins.

@mekkaokereke I want to move forward to a much better time, where the autocratic oligarchy is overthrown, and the twin terrors of racism and imperialism are vanquished from this earth.

@mekkaokereke the 2010s was a race to unsustainable economic conditions that made it perfect for the right to create an enemy to pander to everybody who was left out.

@mekkaokereke honestly I’m with you here. Why not? I do not see how dismantling the structures of white supremacy hurts me.

@mekkaokereke

where we have universal health care

where the wealthy pay appropriate taxes

where we spend as much on developing public transit infrastructure as we do developing military transit infrastructure

where capitalism is regulated

where crimes are prosecuted

where no one is above the law

@mekkaokereke
I'm with you, a better humanity emerges from the ashes.

@mekkaokereke

I'm still annoyed at the Clinton campaign trying to respond to "Make America Great Again" with "America is Already Great"

Made them look so extremely out of touch in exactly the way that their critics said they were.

@mekkaokereke it's more like... I'd prefer to be starting from where (it seemed like) we were in 2016 to make progress on racism and climate denialism and all the rest, rather than first needing to dig out of the massive hole we've fallen even further into since then, but maybe even that is a fallacy?

@mekkaokereke wait was there ever such a time?

@mekkaokereke Was there ever a time like that in the US, where we actually lived up to the ideals we spouted?

@mekkaokereke The Good Old times (TM) were never that good anyway.

@mekkaokereke Back to normal? No thanks. Forward to better, please.