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."
Hillary is white, too.
Not voting for her is not racism.
We’re 15 years past the day that racist and other lib labels mattered. They’re like stickers with no stick left.
“How could anyone with 1/2 a brain watch CNN for more than 15 minutes?”
Plenty of people with 1/2 a brain do. And for longer than that.
My first thought, too!
Black privilege totally wipes out my white supremacy.
I haven’t heard so much concentrated BS since back in the day when I listened to Radio Moscow. I know some of the women they are referring to and I don’t take kindly to the racist sterotyping done by Lemon’s gang. I also have two white female cousins who voted for Obama at least once and now support Trump. What’s up with that? Maybe the white man put them back in their place.
“Do you want to keep your job? Drink the Koolaid. Go Antifa. Worship the Beast.”
We all build our own societies, our own identities that make us unique in the world and the US just happens to be a Caucasian, western-European derived nation. And owes no one an apology for it.
Kirsten Powers is a racist and must lose her job!
JoMa
Such Betrayers like those at CNN — there wont be enough lampposts to hang them all — the country will have to build more lampposts.
BOYCOTT.
I’ve pointed it out before. This is the Democrats/Leftists’ pattern. Anytime anybody does not go along with their hard core Left wing ideology, they are immediately labeled as “racist” for their lack of support.
First it was White Southerners. Then it became all White men in general (though those who supported Leftists were given a get out of jail free card). Now its increasingly White women.
And they’ve begun to notice a sizable % of hispanics don’t support them either. Asian men increasingly don’t support them as they see themselves discriminated against in school applications and elsewhere because Asians tend to work hard and achieve - therefore they must be punished.
Of course to Leftists, “racist” means “anybody who does not agree with me”.
That sort of thinking is really not very unusual for liberal thinkers.
Here by example is a sample of how to lead liberals to reach conclusions based on the evidence.
Picture a liberal, a science note pad and pencil, a knife, a watch, a 50-foot ruler, a thermometer, and a frog. The liberal measures and records the air temperature along with the date, day, and time into his notepad. He then stands close behind the frog and shouts loudly and sharply, "JUMP FROG". The startled frog leaps into the air and lands some distance away from the voice. The liberal gets out his rule and measures the distance the frog jumped. He records a respectable 18 feet 3 inches in his notebook.
The liberal measures and records the air temperature along with the date, day, and time into his notepad. The liberal then uses the knife to remove one of the frog's hind legs and again positions himself directly behind the frog. He again loudly shouts, "JUMP FROG" and the frog again leaps into the air and jumps away from the direction of the sound. The liberal again measures the distance the frog jumped and records 7 feet 7 inches in his notepad.
The liberal measures and records the air temperature along with the date, day, and time into his notepad and then uses his knife to remove the frog's other hind leg and positions himself directly behind the frog. Again, he loudly shouts, "JUMP FROG". This time the frog remains still.
The liberal retrieves his notebook and makes the following entry ;
removing a frog’s legs will diminish the frog’s hearing ability.
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