My girl spoke nothing but fucking TRUTH. Now that’s this kind of Women we need our girls to look up too.
Who is she?
Sarah Kendzior.
She’s an expert in authoritarianism and has accurately predicted almost everything that is happening - her unflinching insight and analysis is terrifying but invaluable right now. Well worth following on twitter.
fucking
why did i never see this until now
You know what saddens me?
How fast she has to talk.
If a man were saying that, he’d be going slowly to emphasise points. He’d be indulging in the occasional ‘you know’ or other filler words. He’d be able to stop for breath. Notice that she didn’t do that. She had the whole thing memorised and she got it out with barely a pause to breathe.
Why?
Because she expected to be interrupted.
What she said was awesome and is absolutely true, and is frankly underlined by the fact that she had to say the whole thing all at once for fear that she wouldn’t be able to say it at all if she so much as stopped to breathe because one of those older white men sitting around her would interrupt and roll right over her.
“I do think it matters what your editorial makeup is, and I think that if our media wasn’t dominated by white men you might see different coverage; um different concerns being emphasized, but I think the most important thing is ‘What is the result of this coverage?’ It doesn’t matter, you know, who is working there if you’re putting out anti-semitic content, anti-muslim content, anti-black content, conspiracy theories, things that lead to actual hate crimes, things that lead to physical assault, things that lead to kids in schools getting bullied right now as a result of this rhetoric. The rhetoric matters. Whether you say that you’re just kidding, whether you say that ‘Oh well, you know, somebody of this ethnicity or race works there’–That doesn’t matter. What matters is who gets hurt, and the obligation of a journalist is to serve the public. The obligation of a politician is to serve the public, and the public is not getting served. The public is being served conspiracy theories and hate rhetoric and it’s leading to actual repercussions that are terrible for a democracy and that have hurt people badly and I don’t think that journalists are doing a good job standing up for the most vulnerable citizens–which is absolutely what their priority should be.”
