Celeb-led ‘White Women for Kamala’ is cringe city
nypost.com: performative allyship and race essentialism. Politics by segregation.Last week, Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts organized a massive Zoom meeting — “White Women: Answer the Call” — for Kamala Harris.On the call, which drew over 200,000 participants, reportedly raised $2 million and has been dubbed the largest Zoom in history, Watts declared (with great humility, of course): “White women, we have 100 days to help save the world.”I thought white saviors were bad?Hey, on the plus side, the left suddenly knows what a woman is again.
Author Glennon Doyle lectured. The singer Pink was there. “The White Lotus” actress Connie Britton spoke, jokingly callingherself and the others “Karens for Kamala.”In other words, gazillionaire elites with the luxury of telling other women — ones who may be worried about paying their grocery bills — that they should cede their personal interests in favor of intersectionality.
And then there was influencer Arielle Fodor, who has 1.3 million followers on TikTok, where she is known as Mrs. Frazzled. She speaks like a mid-level marketing mama on the verge of being invited to the annual conference in Cabo if only she can enlist five more eager wine moms to her vitamin-selling team.Fodor was introduced as someone “here to help gentle parent us through this election.”Perhaps because I am personally familiar with wooden spoon parenting, this came off as incredibly infantilizing.
But hey, maybe it’s just this white woman. “BIPOC women have tapped us in as white women to step up, listen and get involved this election season,” she said.Thank you, BIPOC women, for allowing your white proxy to give us other white chicks explicit permission to exercise our rights as Americans.Fodor outlined ways to.
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