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   mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 13:58:29 JST mekka okereke :verified:

   🤔4B movement against Trump supporters? That makes very little sense.

   https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/07/4b-movement-trump-women

   Again, the majority of white women voters, voted for Trump🤷🏿♂️

   37% of voters are white women, who voted 54% for Trump.

   34% of voters are white men, who voted 60% for Trump.

   So in total, white men contributed only ~2% more Trump votes than white women.

   We keep trying to frame this election as something that men voters did to women. In reality, it's something that white voters did to everyone else.

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     mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 14:01:29 JST mekka okereke :verified:

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     My advice: no matter who wins or loses an election, don't date people that hate you and don't respect your bodily autonomy, regardless of their gender or race. 🤷🏿♂️

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     mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 18:44:37 JST mekka okereke :verified:

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     • Captain Janegay 🫖

     @CaptainJanegay

     I think where it's coming from, is an intentional denial of who voted for Trump, and who didn't.🤷🏿♂️

     A few weeks ago, we were pretending that spousal coercion in voting was a big problem that affected white women as victims. Now we're celebrating spousal coercion by white women as perpetrators. All while white women effectively did as much ballot box damage as white men.🙂🙃

     We will do every ineffective thing, because our society is addicted to seeing white women only as victims.

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     Captain Janegay 🫖 (captainjanegay@mastodon.coffee)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 18:44:38 JST Captain Janegay 🫖

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     @mekkaokereke Where I've seen this discussed, it's been by women who voted for Harris, whose partners said they would too, talked a big game about reproductive rights etc but then just... didn't vote.

     I don't know if that's a statistically large group, and I agree that the right answer is that if your partner just sits on their arse and lets your safety be jeopardised then they shouldn't be your partner; but I do understand where it's coming from.

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     mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 18:55:28 JST mekka okereke :verified:

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     • Captain Janegay 🫖

     @CaptainJanegay

     More people were mad at me for telling y'all what Black women thought about Ruth Bader Ginsburg's racism blind spots, than they were mad at RBG for having those blind spots. 🙂🙃

     There is a direct line from the loss of reproductive rights today, and RBG not being aligned with Black women. RBG was profoundly uncurious about the most important issues impacting Black women, and the danger presented by racist white women. And now here we are. 🤷🏿♂️

     https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109906634290176231

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     Brian Gainor (bgainor@mstdn.party)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 20:53:54 JST Brian Gainor

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     @mekkaokereke as a poll worker, I did see some cases where a whole family came in and I was getting the impression that the father was dictating how everyone was going to vote (his wife and their adult children). In spite of the secret ballot, there's something to be said for that. But I also saw plenty of white women who appeared to be enthusiastically pro-Trump.

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     Brian Gainor (bgainor@mstdn.party)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 20:54:01 JST Brian Gainor

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     @mekkaokereke The real issue is that those numbers add up to 71% of votes in a country that's 58% white. Until we fix America's voter suppression problem, elections will keep getting decided by white people, and history has shown that most of us will keep prioritizing white supremacy.

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     John Hugg (hugg@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 22:52:18 JST John Hugg

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     @mekkaokereke Normalizing that you can reject a partner romantically for their politics is good whether it moves the needle or not. Some people are raised to be deferential or polite in wildly inappropriate situations.

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     mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 01:55:28 JST mekka okereke :verified:

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     • John Hugg

     @hugg

     Of course!

     * You can reject your partner's advances for *any* reason. Including no reason at all.👍🏿

     * You can reject your partners' desire to have kids for *any* reason. Including no reason at all.👍🏿

     Similar to the conversations about "You should be able to hide your vote from your partner," this is not at all an argument denying the prevalence of DV or coercion. This is 100% about rejecting the cynical attempt to mitigate the agency of white women in their own decisions and actions.

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     Micah (m@autistics.life)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 02:31:59 JST Micah

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     @mekkaokereke It says a lot about our culture and society that even with all of the evidence that white women voted for Trump, we still give men credit...

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     mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 02:34:42 JST mekka okereke :verified:

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     • Micah

     @m

     🤣 I lol'd!

     Women did half the work, men get all the credit!

     Same as it ever was!

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     mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 05:12:30 JST mekka okereke :verified:

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     • Brian Nicar

     @wendigo

     🤦🏿♂️Your use of the term "race blaming," your fragile hit dog hollering about "we are not all alike!" when I never said that we were all alike, and your "whadabout Latinos!", and your "Indigenous people are in Oklahoma!" tells me that any further interaction is likely to just bring more of that type energy to my mentions.

     I don't need that, and I suspect that you don't either.

     So instead I'll just disengage, and simply say, "Have a good day!" And "Bye!"

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     Brian Nicar (wendigo@metalhead.club)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 05:12:32 JST Brian Nicar

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     @mekkaokereke And where are your stats on Latino voters in Florida, Texas or Arizona? Race blaming is the wrong approach. Trust me, we're not all alike. In fact, I DIDN"T vote for Trump. I'm also a Cherokee, and I as I understand it, Trump ran away with Oklahoma, a state where many Native Americans are also citizens...

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     mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 05:50:48 JST mekka okereke :verified:

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     • Brian Nicar

     @wendigo

     🤣

     "Have a good day!"

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     Brian Nicar (wendigo@metalhead.club)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 05:50:50 JST Brian Nicar

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     @mekkaokereke So, that is your way of not answering the question? Awesome. As long as everyone non-white (which I am) goes along with your bullshit, you're fine. Cheers! You don't want answers or engagement. And if you want anyone to EVER take you seriously, don't ever use that hip-hop / Millennial code again. It's fucking stupid.

     "We keep trying to frame this election as something that men voters did to women. In reality, it's something that white voters did to everyone else."

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     Sashin (sashin@veganism.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 18:35:20 JST Sashin

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     @mekkaokereke I think we shouldn't even be friends with people that don't people on the basis of gender or race.

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     Valerie Aurora (vaurora@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 19:29:06 JST Valerie Aurora

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     @mekkaokereke just want to say thank you. As a white American woman with a feminist activist background, it took me way too long to learn that, on average, white American women are not even feminist, much less anti-racist

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     mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 01:11:33 JST mekka okereke :verified:

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     • Chris H #ChoirsForClimate

     @hutchingsmusic

     *Sigh*

     My mentions are quite possibly the single worst place on the entire internet to try to make the "Free Melania" point. Like literally the worst place on the whole interwebs.

     https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/113421357891867640

     https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/113220676086741840

     I reject it.

     Stop making excuses for the fact that there is not much difference between the amount of racism done by white men and white women.

     Start leaving comments in racist white women's mentions instead.

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     Chris H #ChoirsForClimate (hutchingsmusic@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 01:11:34 JST Chris H #ChoirsForClimate

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     @mekkaokereke A small but not insignificant proportion of white women will have not been given any choice about who to vote for, especially if they voted by mail.

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     mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 06:36:44 JST mekka okereke :verified:

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     • Raccoon🏳️‍🌈

     @Raccoon

     No. Counterpoint rejected.

     You said "women under 30." Not "white women under 30."

     "Women under 30" is another way of saying "blend in more Black, Latina, and Asian women to change the outcome."

     Look at this chart and see how the mix of non-white women is significantly higher when you get under 30.

     https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109609941910796255

     Also notice how no generation of white people is significantly different from any other.

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     Raccoon🏳️‍🌈 (raccoon@techhub.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 06:36:45 JST Raccoon🏳️‍🌈

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     @mekkaokereke
     Counterpoint: the majority of white women who voted for Trump are old. Women under 30 voted for Harris by more than a 15% margin.