White Feminism rescue mission:🧵
The entire narrative of international women solidarity is unidirectional, white women having well-meaning concerns about black & brown women. Why is the reverse not the case? Why is there no transnational feminism from Asian & African feminism?
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The entire narrative of international women solidarity is unidirectional, white women having well-meaning concerns about black & brown women. Why is the reverse not the case? Why is there no transnational feminism from Asian & African feminism?
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Is it because white culture is superior to brown and black culture? Is there nothing that white women can learn from black and brown culture? Are non-white cultures inferior? Why are African leaders not calling for "intervention" in the US for women's rights abuse?
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This has not gone unnoticed. The Indian American feminist, Indrepal Grewal, argues that women's rights abuses are not considered human rights violations in the US or Europe. But in non-white countries, it is.
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Grewal further says,
"Violence against women (in the West) is blamed on individual criminality rather than cultural factors in the case if white males; for minority groups, it is linked to pathological cultures." (pic 3)
One can take the eg of "honour killing".
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"Violence against women (in the West) is blamed on individual criminality rather than cultural factors in the case if white males; for minority groups, it is linked to pathological cultures." (pic 3)
One can take the eg of "honour killing".
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Crimes against women in brown and black culture are blamed on the cultures and traditions. But crimes in the white culture are not blamed for white cultures.
Is this because black and brown culture is inherently violent and backwards?
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Is this because black and brown culture is inherently violent and backwards?
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Why do brown, black, and of course, white feminists call for "humanitarian intervention" in non-white countries to rescue women from the barbaric cultures, but this narrative isn't found when white women are being oppressed?
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Abu-Lughod, for instance, pleads to white Liberal feminists to take "responsibility" and "rescue" Muslim women from the Islamic cultures. She even lauds Bush for his policies. Do Muslim feminists stand by Bush and his policies in the Muslim world to "save" Muslim women?
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If they don't, have they dissociated themselves from such feminists?
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