Feminists Without Mystique

We see you: White people who post about black people posting "All lives matter," voter suppression in Kentucky (so, Mitch McConnell), Trump scaling back COVID testing, medical decision tools that disadvantage black patients, discrimination against corrections officers in the jail where Derek Chauvin is being held, LA County Sheriff's Department

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We see you: Trump rally in Tulsa, Steven Carillo, The Bachelor franchise, Oluwatoyin “Toyin” Salau, Kayleigh McEnany, Robert Fuller and Malcolm Harsch

We continue our conversation on police brutality and the protests of the last two weeks, and address some questions and comments from conservatives regarding the movement to 'Defund the Police,' white privilege, the problem with "All Lives Matter," and the myth of 'black on black crime.'

Some resources and explainers we've found helpful: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrHIQIO_bdQ

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/4ayw8j/white-privilege-examples

We discuss police brutality over the last two weeks, and its connection to a long lineage of generational police brutality and misconduct that leads us to the present moment. We also tackle how we can be better anti-racists. 

Full resource list will be posted in Part 2, tomorrow, but in the meantime our top two recommendations:

13th (2016, d. Ava DuVernay)

White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

We participate in the podcast blackout in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, and read a partial list of the names of black people killed by police violence since 2014. 

Resources:

https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/#

https://www.joincampaignzero.org/

https://atlsolidarity.org/#why

We discuss some of the news swirling around that isn't COVID related - 2020 election integrity, China exerting illegal power over Hong Kong, Trump's increasingly disturbing and deranged tweets, Instagram's AI bias against plus sized bodies... it's a big list of bummers. 

We discuss the onslaught of news, from COVID-19 Senate hearings, to the Supreme Court hearing oral arguments on Trump’s tax cases, Barr and the DOJ dropping charges against Michael Flynn, McConnell calling Obama “classless” (!). Then we get into what Adele’s weight loss brings up for both of us. 

We see you: Trump, Doctor’s Without Borders needing to step in and assist parts of the US with COVID, WA Representative Mark Schoesler, Ms. Monopoly, Senator Rand Paul, San Diego man wearing a KKK hood as a mask in the grocery store.