07 11 / 2018
“A says:
I really hate to be the ahole here, because I know that a great deal of you in Texas and in other parts worked very hard on these elections and with getting the vote out and educating people on issues. And far be it from me to bring race into this conversation so quickly, but exit polls indicate that roughly 60% of white women in Texas who voted, voted for Ted Cruz. The numbers are even worse for the governor’s election in Georgia, where 76% of the white women who voted voted for Kemp over Stacey Abrams.”
I really don’t understand how something like this is helpful, and this is peak Celebitchy right here. What is point of this comment? I am a white woman in Texas who voted for Beto, I knew it was a long shot, this is Texas after all. But I did my part in bringing the vote to only 3% difference between Beto and Cruz. And, of course, I was disappointed that it wasn’t enough.
So, now let’s beat women like me, who are already facing the uphill battle in Texas, over the head with the fact that Texas is a deep red state where a lot of people vote Republican. Because that is going to make me feel so much better!
And this is not even about race. Beto is a white American, while Cruz is hispanic. Cruz is actually a minority here. This is about class - rich vs. poor. Wealthy people vote Republican, evangelicals vote Republican, and yes, most of those people are white.
Sometimes progressives in the US don’t see the forest for the trees. Some of them are conditioned to see everything in terms of racial or sexual discrimination and they are completely oblivious to the main societal struggle - the wealth inequality struggle. And this CB comment is a prime example of that.
Additionally, according to the stats 71% of white men voted for Cruz, and 59% of white women, So, actually more men voted for Cruz , but in the usual Celebitchy fashion, it is only women who get grief.
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