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TerriRBG's avatar

Yes, this. I find myself actually hoping a lot of these complicit and enabling right wing women will die of pregnancy complications and maybe it would be a wake up call to the motherless children and other family members and friends they leave behind. I know that’s wrong, but it’s how I feel. I have no forgiveness for anyone who votes Republican at this point and that sadly includes a lot of once-beloved relatives who no longer have a place in my life.

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I really feel this. One way I relate to this is that I am an Indian-American and I’ve had to watch for years as Indians in our diaspora ingratiate themselves to right wing white people partly out of an innate racism toward fellow (darker) Indians, I.e. our still existing caste system and partly out of a belief that they are viewed as the white’s preferred minority. It is stupefying to watch brown people cozy up to out-in-the-open white male oppressors for kudos, cash and comfort within this wretched hierarchy. Which is all to say that it leaves one especially hollow to see this type of allyship fail and shows the enduring psychological grip that the promise of power holds on individuals. It makes intersectional allyship that much more critical because we cannot take for granted that the oppressed won’t become collaborators to their own oppression. As usual thanks for spotlighting this insight!

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