Half of white women continue to vote Republican. What's wrong with them? | Moira Donegan | Opinion | The Guardian
"Some 53% of white women voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election – the real story of white women voters is both more grim and more complex than the figure reveals--MoiraDonegan
For the past two years, the American left has been haunted by a number: 53.
It is the percentage of white women who voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
...a reflection of the conventional wisdom that white women would rather choose the racism espoused by the Republican party than join in the moral coalition represented by men of color and other women.
...What is wrong with white women?
...The most likely answer seems to be that white women vote for Republicans for the same reason that white men do: because they are racist.
...It is likely that the white women who voted for him in 2016, and who will vote for him again in 2020, find this racist sadism gratifying.
It is fun for them.
But there is something else at play, something more complicated, in white women’s relationship to white patriarchy.
White women’s identity places them in a curious position at the intersection of two vectors of privilege and oppression: they are granted structural power by their race, but excluded from it by their sex.
In a political system where racism and sexism are both so deeply ingrained, white women must choose to be loyal to either the more powerful aspect of their identity, their race, or to the less powerful, their sex.
Some Republican white women might lean into racism not only for racism’s sake, but also as a means of avoiding or denying the realities of how sexist oppression makes them vulnerable..."
Yeah, it gets worse.
Read on to see what they are telling their troops.
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