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After Brett Kavanaugh’s Confirmation, One Word Ignited A Massive Debate About Feminism
The Huffington Post ^ | October 12, 2018 | Ja’han Jones

Posted on 10/12/2018 10:05:21 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Jasmin Kaur wrote her poem “her voice” in December 2016. At a time predating the official start of the Trump presidency, her words were meant as a guiding principle for Sikh women like her, who struggle against racism and the feeling of invisibility that accompanies it.

In her poem, she writes:

Scream,

So that one day a hundred years from now

Another sister will not have to dry her tears

Wondering where in history she lost her voice

But in an ironic turn, last week Kaur saw her poem go viral in the days following Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court despite sexual assault allegations against him — only now, her words were edited.

“Scream,” as she’d written, was replaced with the word “Vote,” with the editor repurposing a poem about willful, emotional expression into a poem about dutiful, civic expression....

(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Poetry; Politics; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: appropriation; cultural; feminism; kavanaugh; octobersurprise; revisionisthistory; sikh; whites
I love it when the Left fights themselves.
1 posted on 10/12/2018 10:05:21 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yes, it’s very amusing to see libs eat their own. One never knows what is going to offend them. LOL.


2 posted on 10/12/2018 10:07:29 AM PDT by demnomo
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Does HuffPoo ever stop to take a deep breath of fresh air?


3 posted on 10/12/2018 10:08:57 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Are Democrats going to scream at the sky again?


4 posted on 10/12/2018 10:12:11 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: a fool in paradise

Folks we are fighting Evil like has never been before. The Democrat Party is Evil to the very Core. Look at things Objectively and you cant miss the truth!


5 posted on 10/12/2018 10:12:19 AM PDT by Herman Ball
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Yep and they will attempt to put additional justices on the supreme court if they ever take over again.

2 thinks can be done, amend the constitution to limit the number or (this was a freeper’s suggestion) trump should announce consideration of adding more Justices just so the Left is on record opposing the concept.


6 posted on 10/12/2018 10:17:16 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: a fool in paradise

LOL, how do they raise their heads out of the sewage of that idiocy long enough to grab a breath?

We wish they would keep their promise to hold their breath until they turn blue, but they never follow through with it.


7 posted on 10/12/2018 10:20:54 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The poem makes no sense whatsoever.


8 posted on 10/12/2018 10:24:23 AM PDT by SamAdams76 ( If you are offended by what I have to say here then you can blame your parents for raising a wuss)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If I were a lib I would threaten to leave the country...again.


9 posted on 10/12/2018 10:35:38 AM PDT by Leep (Thanks)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Her voice was a phony as her charges:-)


10 posted on 10/12/2018 10:36:55 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: SamAdams76

“The poem makes no sense whatsoever”

None of that twisted logic feminint gobbledygook makes any sense. (Thank goodness!)


11 posted on 10/12/2018 10:39:31 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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The feminization of Western Civilization will be its downfall....time to Cowboy Up and take back the world.


12 posted on 10/12/2018 10:55:38 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Sikh women like her, who struggle against racism and the feeling of invisibility that accompanies it.

KWITCHERBITCHIN' and EARN your place in society.

13 posted on 10/12/2018 10:56:57 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Something tells me she’s not a very observant Sikh.


14 posted on 10/12/2018 11:07:07 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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Still, it wrong for the editor to change the writer’s words. The copy right is the author’s as soon as she wrote it down.


15 posted on 10/12/2018 2:29:21 PM PDT by Cloverfarm (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem ...)
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