here's what democrat feminists who hiss at the left for "destroying democracy" and somehow endangering people for not buying into american bullshit don't seem to comprehend:
the united states has to continue committing 'war crimes' just to exist. war crimes which the united states government made itself immune to answering for, because it knows that it needs the death of innocents to exist, and that that's bad optics to americans. this feels like something obvious to me, maybe because of who I am and the situation in which I was raised, where I saw the bullshit as early as I can remember having a sense of self.
but the thing is, there are countless women like me -- more like than unlike, actually! but I keep seeing these white 'feminists' say otherwise, and act like it all comes down to some good vs evil of the american two-party system. even though any party that works to keep the united states (and you!) in a position of privilege is a violent, and therefore evil, party (unless you think that violence is only evil when leftists do it, of course.) a party which does not deserve to exist, propping up a power structure which does not deserve to exist, powered by people who do not deserve the entitlement and exceptionalism they love feeling. the american government is like this because the american is like this. whine as much as you want, this is america.
inb4 "oh I'm a woman, I'm not privileged" ok you can say it as much as you want. but if you're a white american citizen, you have privilege. how's that high school education and electricity and employment treating you? have access to it? wow. more than many, many women have, even if you don't have it perfect. I'm white passing with an indigenous shimƔsƔni, I grew up absolutely fucking destitute. I grew up a victim of sexual violence. I would still never be targeted by the men who are systematically disappearing and murdering indigenous women. I would never be targeted by IDF soldiers (supported by democrats as well as republicans!) who are training dogs to rape political prisoners, because I'm not palestinian. you're not the most oppressed ever because you're a chick, being a woman just means you're in the bottom 50%. you're on top of the other 45%. and spoiler, america hates you too. so why the absolute fuck are you pretending that the american project is something that should be supported?
I'd have hoped that self-proclaimed 'radical feminists', allegedly getting to the root of the systems of injustice, would have recognized this. obviously no one is as privileged as the white american man. but you're not devoid of complicity just because you're a white american woman who votes democrat. you're complicit in american violence because you act as a willfully stupid ignorant dog shepherding lambs to the slaughter. treating any strays like they're to blame for oncoming collective punishment, instead of wondering why there's collective punishment in the first place. you help uphold this system that forcibly disempowers the other 3,900,000,000 women in the world. by number you are nothing. but you have power to either support or shun a system that enforces violence on nearly 4 billion women.
again, like 150,000,000 of you. vs 3,900,000,000. hundreds of orders of magnitude, that's the number of women you could help. you have the power to tell this system to go fuck itself, and you don't. so no, we're not allies. no, I'm not going to vote blue no matter who. because if you believe the united states should exist, you're an enemy of women everywhere else. if you think of this country with anything other than hate in your heart, you deserve to go out along with the american men when the rest of the world finally gets tired of american bullshit and gives us a tenth of what we dish out.
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