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ziq OP wrote (edited )

You just added "white" and "liberal" in front of feminism and attacked it.

That's my reading of it too. Obviously it's not just white liberals who will be affected when the court that has the authority to outlaw family planning is filled with misogynistic male judges appointed by a known rapist.

And even if it were just white liberals who were at risk, potentially millions of women being violated by laws passed by those handful of men (including at least one known rapist who got away with gaslighting his victim on an international stage) isn't something to make light of, whatever their politics.

American women are terrified of this overwhelmingly-male court's power to abuse them, and collectivising and attacking them as "white liberal feminists" when those fears are at their most heightened due to the death of one of the three women justices is just obtuse...

But then doubling down on that obtuseness by misapplying decolonisation:

those of you who saw an anti-woman position in what I said need to work on your decolonial theory as well as do more thinking about how you relate to rights as given by authorities

That's just cruel. American women (on raddle or elsewhere) not wanting the state to deny them their bodily autonomy aren't doing colonialism... Wanting to maintain control of your body is just basic survival and it doesn't make you culpable for the crimes the state commits against other women.

It took me 2 days to finish reading their response because it felt so discomforting, and sadly it only got worse. I hope they better understand your perspective after having a couple days to think it over.

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