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[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (12 children)

US feminism is mostly centering on the issues of white, middle-class women, failing to fully integrate the needs of women of color, marginalized, or lower-income women.

Literally the only feminism I've heard about for the past 10 years is intersectional feminism.

Also 53% of white women vote for trump compared to 7% of black women who voted for trump. This showed that they gave more priority to racial identify over collective welfare of all women in usa .

Very much a just-so story. Imo, a far more reasonable interpretation breaks voting patterns along tribal identity, while most women voting care about more things than the very amorphous "collective welfare of all women". Interesting to note that 38% of latina voters voted for Trump, a statistic strangely absent from your argument...

White feminist often ignore or won’t acknowledge that in usa —specifically land ownership and early capital accumulation were built upon the exploitation of Native American and African people.

I have never met a single self-identifying feminist who would not agree with this to some extent.

The wealth generated by the labor of enslaved African people in agriculture and other industries directly enriched white slaveholders and, by extension, their present generation .

I think Adam Smith would have a lot to say about this. Specifically, he would probably point out that the slave states really had an awfully small economy compared to the free states, and that most of the wealth generation which occurred in the US occurred due to productivity gains driven by technological innovations which were most aggressively exploited in the north. In the long run, few people could claim to have really benefitted noticeably from american slavery - it was just a shitty thing to do for no reason.

Despite DEI mostly benefitted white women

I mean, from the pro-DEI arguments I keep hearing on lemmy, DEI seems to mostly involve removing names from resumes before they are rejected by AI or something. But I wouldn't be surprised if this critique had merit - most people who benefit from adding footholds inside the system are people who know how to work the system.

2)Most of the educational scholarships are benefitted by white women over native American ,black women

I really don't have anything to say to this, because it feels like you kind of just shut down in the middle of a rant. Are you okay? Did you have a stroke?

[–] Helloooo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Your comment completely completely proves what white feminism is , that's the lack of accountability and no consideration of rights of minority

Even United Nations acknowledge the need to move beyond white feminism :-

https://www.unwomen.org/en/articles/explainer/intersectional-feminism-what-it-means-and-why-it-matters-right-now

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_feminism

Adam smith point of view won't work here cause black people even after abolishment of slavery were not allowed to participate in economy in efficient way . Productivity of economy benefited only white people for wealth generation .. In case black people if became successful,they were torn downed to the ground Best example would be what happened to black wall street and how it got destroyed during Tulsa massacre

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Your comment completely completely proves what white feminism is

That would be really weird, considering I don't even really consider myself to be a feminist. Sure, on any given policy position I agree with them.... but it's kind of like MtG. Sure, you might think MtG is fun - but you don't want to admit to being an MtG player too early in a relationship, lest you get lumped into all the other MtG players. You know the ones.

Adam smith point of view won’t work here

Adam Smith literally wrote The Wealth of Nations, in part, to explain why Spain wasn't the richest country in the world after they stole a shit ton of gold from some brown people.

White people today aren't rich because of wealth they accumulated from exploiting brown people, because that wealth doesn't accumulate over time. They are wealthy because they participated in a system with strong, stable institutions which created technological innovation.

Brown people didn't benefit as much from this creation of wealth because they were excluded from the formal and informal social networks and opportunities which would have provided them the means to earn and accumulate wealth, and sometimes had their own wealth, social networks, and social opportunities destroyed. Which was, to be clear, a dick move. But it is not the same dick move that is being described above.

[–] Helloooo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

What you said is right , without industrialization there won't be any rise in economic prosperity, but at the same time

if you look at present day Spanish colonies , much of the property , farmlands of high real estate value are majorly owned by descendants of white people over present generation of black people or native Americans tribes .

Another example would be australia, much of the wealthy real estate , farmlands and property are owned by white people , they got this wealth and property from there ancestors. How there ancestors got this were by displacement of aborginal people from fertile , beach side lands

That means present generation of white people in australia benefit from having high net worth properties , fertile farmlands whereas present day descendants of aborginal people only have dried land and have properties of low real estate value .

This is one of the Main thing causing disparity in australia, same thing would be applicable for usa where white people own majority of property, wealthy farmland . Also Black people were curbed via Jim crows law which were made by white supremists to curb rise of black traders eventually leads to more economic inequality .

Jealous white supremists destroyed black wall street during Tulsa massacre

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