Posted on 11/19/2018 2:41:08 PM PST by Morgana
On Friday's CNN Tonight, Don Lemon hosted a panel discussion of why most white women voted for Donald Trump that was stacked three to one against conservatives.
Liberal contributor Kirsten Powers argued that such women must be "racist" because they voted for Trump, while UC Berkeley Professor Stephanie Jones-Rogers argued that women have long benefited from "white supremacy" even while being "oppressed" by white men. Alice Stewart was the exception to the liberal rule.
At 11:27 p.m. Eastern, after Lemon began by asking Powers her view, she recalled: "People will say that they support him for reasons other than his racist language."
She soon added: "And they'll say, 'Well, I'm not racist. I just voted for him because I didn't like Hillary Clinton.'"
The CNN contributor insinuated that everyone who voted for Trump is racist as she continued: "And I just want to say that's not -- that doesn't make you not racist. It actually makes you racist. If you support somebody who does racist things, that makes you racist. So I just want to establish that."
She then asserted that white women are "oppressed" and lamented that they would not therefore support other "oppressed people." Powers:
I think we have to recognize that white men are doing it as well, but sometimes I think that we would hope that we would get better behavior from white women because white women are themselves are oppressed and that they would be able to align themselves with other oppressed people.
I think we have to remember that the white patriarchal system actually benefits white women in a lot of ways, and they are attached to white men who are benefiting from the system that was created by them, for them. And their fathers and their husbands and their brothers are benefiting from the system, and so they are also benefiting.
A couple of weeks ago, Powers notably commented that "white men are very violent and a problem."
Lemon soon turned to Professor Jones-Rogers and quoted her on women supporting "white supremacy." Lemon:
You're quoted in this Vox article as saying that, for centuries, white women have "invested in white supremacy because their whiteness affords them a particular kind of power that their gender does not." What did you mean by that?
As she responded, she made a similar claim as Powers about women benefiting from "white supremacy." Jones-Rogers:
We tend to think of white women primarily focusing on gender oppression -- that because they are oppressed as women, that that oppression will allow them to ally and to sympathize with other dispossessed and other disempowered peoples in the nation.
She added:
But my research actually shows that they long had deep investment in white supremacy, and not only did they benefit from it, but they participated in its construction and its perpetuation -- not just in the context of slavery, not just in the colonial period, but well after slavery was over.
Stewart strongly disagreed with the notion that she was oppressed and added "Let me just say this Kirsten is a dear friend of mine but I resent she says I'm racist because Donald Trump says racist things."
Defending yourself is racist. Not being a Democrat is racist. Donald Trump was perfectly fine in the liberal eye until he ran for president. Can’t take racism seriously at all from these people.
LET’S SEE. White women marry white men-mostly. Don’t you think there’s more in common between them than some dark skinned outsider who’s miserable all the time?
Wow, my wife just found out she is a racist.
How could anyone with 1/2 a brain watch CNN for more than 15 minutes?
On Friday’s CNN Tonight, Don Lemon hosted a panel discussion of why most white women voted for Donald Trump that was stacked three to one against conservatives.
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It’s time for all conservative guests to boycott CNN and stop providing them a punching bag.
I don’t understand this ideology? Trump racist? He has done more for Black Americans in 2 years then a Black President Barack Obama did in 8 years.
I guess some people are just uneasy having so much hate and need to have something they can try to hang it on!
Why do black penis holsters vote democrat?
“Wow, my wife just found out she is a racist.”
Mine too. Although she is African American.
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The correct answer to this is “So what?” White people built this society and culture. Of course they are going to be better at it. It’s home field advantage. The same people would likely struggle in Chinese culture. Why should white people be expected to harm themselves by giving it up? Why is that moral? Why does the left never have to make the positive case? Why should white people give up their position at the top of a country they built? This is only asked of white people.
My wife is very happy to know she’s a racist. She just loves Trump. She was worried she might not be a racist but she’s soooooo happy now she said she’s going shopping for a new pair of shoes. After all, a girl needs new shoes for just about, well,... everything!
These people are more and more openly pushing for a race war.
What happened to Kirsten Powers? She used to be a traditional lunch-box liberal. Now she’s done went full ANTIFA on everyone.
I don’t need my street cred questioned by a gay guy who wasn’t even born when I was fighting for civil rights in this country
Classy comment.
Hey, can we whites, male or female, help it if we’re supreme like you lefty morons are always saying we are? < /sarc >
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