The White Supremacy Problem.

I'll mention that I'm black in this post because it is relevant to what I'm saying. No, this post isn't about race. This is about feminism. This post involves discussions of racism and may get mildly controversial, fair warning. <br><br>I've been involved in a feminist discussion space for about six years. The group has never had more than a couple hundred members - but it's been a great and supportive little space for all of us. <br><br>That is, until the George Floyd thing happened. <br><br>The first thing we started getting spammed with were the "Not all men" comments, which are especially ironic because of the name of our group. <br><br>Then we started getting a flood of white American women coming into the group, many of them people who had been there for a few months but hadn't been active until now. <br><br>They were all expecting the same level of solidarity that the US is giving us in our protests. And they were expecting the solidarity from all of us, despite 1) our page being explicitly anti-men, and 2) many of the people in the group being black and a fair amount of us being American. <br><br>Then they had the nerve to call us bigots for not wanting to show solidarity with their movement. <br><br>Let me make something clear here: we do not consent to being lumped in with the White American Feminist movement. Their movement is not ours nor has it ever been. <br><br>The White American Feminist movement has historically been racist, ableist, and transphobic. <br><br>It doesn't fight for the rights of women. It fights for the rights of middle class, able-bodied white cis women. <br><br>They will throw a fit over the right to abort a child, but they'll do nothing for the parents who can't afford to feed their kids. They'll complain about the lack of representation of women in higher-paying jobs, but they'll do nothing for women working minimum wage jobs. <br><br>They'll complain about being paid less than white men, but they won't speak up for women of color paid even LESS than them.<br><br>They'll talk about men needing to do "emotional labor" but they'll expect women of color to do the real emotional labor of speaking up for other women, of giving "diversity" workshops, and of giving "intersectionality" workshops. <br><br>Think about what "intersectionality" even is. It's when a black lesbian feminist wanted to point out that white, straight, cis women have a LOT more privilege than she does. <br><br>The White American Feminist movement isn't a feminist movement at all. It's a supremacy movement. White middle-class able-bodied cis women want to be on the same level as white middle-class able-bodied cis men - and they want women of color and trans women to stay where we are: beneath them. <br><br>And they have the NERVE to call US bigots for not wanting to be allied with them? <br><br>They have the NERVE to call us racist? <br><br>They have the NERVE to call us sexist? <br><br>They have the NERVE to come into a space meant for women of color and talk like they're the oppressed ones? <br><br>Never, EVER call me a bigot again. Never, EVER call me racist again. Never, EVER call me sexist again. <br><br>You want to know why? <br><br>Because I am none of those things. I am not a racist. I am not a bigot. I am not sexist. <br><br>I am part of an oppressed class, standing up for myself. <br><br>I am not oppressing anyone. <br><br>I am not suppressing anyone. <br><br>I am not fighting for supremacy. <br><br>I am not fighting to be elevated above anyone. <br><br>I am not fighting to be better than anyone else. <br><br>I am fighting to be YOUR EQUAL. <br><br>Because right now? You are not MY equal. <br><br>Right now? YOU are better than ME. <br><br>Right now? YOU are treated better than ME. <br><br>And you have the NERVE to call ME a bigot? <br><br>You people are disgusting.