when oppression spreads: why racism and feminism are absolutely linked

tonight i spent a good 30 minutes taking a couple of young dudes to task about this tweet that ended up in my feed, thanks to an ignorant RT:

on the back of a couple of general WTFs, stupidly, i tried to 'educate' a little. even though that's a problematic tactic. and i think i know why*.


one of the examples i gave them was -  that attitude was similar to the idea that dressing puffer and being black justified being beaten by police.

to which they both responded/agreed:




which shocked me.
it shocked me that they believe that to be OK and they're not angry with that. at all.

they have, thanks to a white supremicist system and the racism within the media (not just the police force), come to believe that the key to not being beaten by police is to not look like hood yute.

they are so conditioned to believe that a young black man deserves to be harrassed by the authorities because of the way he dresses.

and so they believe that a young woman deserves to be raped because of the way she dresses.


and they are so conditioned to these ideas, that they're not angry about them.

they're fact.
reality.
ways of staying safe.
and a reason to castigate others for not adhering to the codes of staying 'safe'.


despite the fact that young black men from the hood in puffers are no more likely to stab someone than angry young white men in the suburbs.

despite the fact that women are raped regardless of being as sexually bared as possible, or as modest as full niqab.

and that rape is not punishment for social disorder.


and this is why white feminists need to study racial oppression.
because the conditioning is comparable. and each one supports the other.


*i've blocked one - who doesn't care about [my] opinion' and monitoring the other (the guy i originally was following).