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Thu Jan 2, 2014, 07:00 PM Jan 2014

Democrats Need to Watch Out: "White Feminism" = Memetown 2014

The second half of 2013 has seen an increase in internet accusations and, in some cases, activism re "white feminism."

Most of it seems to be coming from the entertainment sector, and there's too much of it, too suddenly, IMO, to be a coincidence.

IMO, a number of columnists are using people like Lily Allen and Ani DiFranco as a warm-up for what they've got in store for white, liberal female candidates in 2014.

10:1 it's going to become a meme. How we handle it will determine elections.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sarah-milstein/5-ways-white-feminists-can-address-our-own-racism_b_3955065.html

https://www.change.org/petitions/ani-difranco-cancel-the-righteous-retreat-in-the-big-easy#share

http://www.alternet.org/why-white-feminists-should-be-careful-when-they-go-after-michelle-obama

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Democrats Need to Watch Out: "White Feminism" = Memetown 2014 (Original Post) Upward Jan 2014 OP
They can start by replacing DiFi FreakinDJ Jan 2014 #1
everytime? OKNancy Jan 2014 #2
You do - she cast the deciding vote FOR NAFTA FreakinDJ Jan 2014 #4
It's hardly a new meme. Old Union Guy Jan 2014 #3
Yabbut Watch the DB Level and Sustain Upward Jan 2014 #5
 

Old Union Guy

(738 posts)
3. It's hardly a new meme.
Thu Jan 2, 2014, 11:41 PM
Jan 2014

I heard people who should have known better talking along those lines in the 1980s.

Not right wingers either.

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(115 posts)
5. Yabbut Watch the DB Level and Sustain
Sat Jan 4, 2014, 01:24 PM
Jan 2014

There's a book about once a decade or so.

What's poking it's ugly head up now is ... ugly.

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