ICE Killed A White Mother. Why Are Trump And Other White Men Cheering?

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17. I honestly don't expect many people here to agree with me

Because the shift is more generational than anything else. Millennials started divorcing immutable identity characteristics with ideology, and Gen Z has been speeding that up. Latinos and Democrats. The young and Democrats. These bright lines that people would take as axiom are no longer default truths. And people are getting mad about it. Again, Bowen and Matt were assumed to have one opinion because of who they are, and when that didn't mesh, the blowback was vicious. Traitors. AOC and Mamdani. Progressive. Said the most anodyne thing, "Hamas support is no good." Instant hatred. They thought his Islamic background demanded ideological conformity. Renee Good, opposed ICE, earned the Right's hatred.

The world doesn't run along reductive ideologies.

My disagreement with this author (to name one) is that she is writing from a place of racial ideology. It does not comport with the real world. She is writing from a place of assuming her ideological statements are obvious facts, when no such thing is in evidence. And that resting foundational assumption places cracks in the entire rest of the piece. Her view of white women is through an incredibly ideological lens, and while it might be interesting to watch her do combat with her own assumptions, it's not particularly helpful.

And you can see where she almost, almost gets it. She correctly identifies FOX News and right-wing social media reducing Good to a ideological identity. She has the receipts, and I have eyes. We all see the misogyny. But then the author herself goes right ahead and does the same. So close to awareness there. How does someone write, "Through workplace retaliation, harassment campaigns, doxxing, and blacklisting. Through the steady message that dissent will cost you your livelihood," and just keep going as if anyone outside of the choir isn't going, "Uhm, funny thing about that . . ."

Self-awareness needs to be a thing. And it's just not anymore.

I could write paragraphs about this, but to keep it succinct (way too late). This idea of "white woman immunity" is a construct that both the Right and Left share. The right-wing's criticisms of white liberal women are based on the assumption they think they have this immunity. And the Left's idea that they absolutely have this immunity and are complicit in all of the crimes is so parallel to the Right's views, it's kind of wacky to watch. You could play the game "Who said it?" and try to figure out if it was the Left or Right on the issue.

The author does an excellent job of calling out the Right and their reaction to her killing. However, Renee Good deserves better than this reduction to identity. We all do. It's something we need to stop doing. It's unhelpful conversation at this point. The world is not that anymore and hasn't been in some time.

We can do better than this stuff. And to put it extremely plainly: using a dead woman for identity political football is just icky. It should feel dirty. And to people who aren't already ideological disposed in this way, I can't imagine this article going over well.

"Because it confirms that the war on women has reached a stage where even whiteness and motherhood no longer guarantee safety."

It never did. And I cannot believe anyone in America - certainly no one who identifies as liberal - could not be aware of that. That in itself almost feels like misogyny. It's a dismissal of women's lived experiences. It plugs ideological fantasy in the place where real women, women who have suffered, exist.

This stuff's icky.