Status Updates From The Trouble with White Wome...

“When white women are confronted with the possibility they can be perpetrators, and not only victims, of oppressive actions and they burst out crying, antiracist work grinds to a halt. A white woman sobs, and the room falls to her feet. These tears…cleanse the sufferer of any past wrongs and invest her with a martyred authority flowing from the realm of allegedly indisputable truth: her own hurt feelings.”

“White feminist objectives work to liberate privileged women while keeping other structures of injustice intact.”

Right out of the gate, this is shaping up to be good.

This has gotten pretty boring, with each chapter set up and written in the same way.

Ugh, Harriet Beecher Stowe is the OG Kathryn Stockett. BLERGH.

Oooh, white women display anguish over morally evil situations such as slavery not to uplift the condition of the oppressed, but to uplift their status as a morally “good” person who is rightfully demonstrating outrage—FIRE.

I still appreciate this but I feel like the information and organization is a bit repetitive since I’ve read similar works.

“White feminism is an active form of harm”

DAYUM