Saturday Night Card Game — then they went after #BlackPowerIsForBlackMen and things really got bitter.

Remember when Joan Walsh of non-tokenist Salon.com kicked off an intra-progressive Twitter war after writing:

“I deeply resent people who insist that white progressives who criticize Obama are deluding themselves that they’re his ‘base,’ when his ‘base’ is actually not white progressives, but people of color.”

Sure you do, Dem Base Fractures Into Twitter War And Charges Of Racism Against Professional Left:

@truthrose1 Not saying white progressives are THE base; opposite. But I resent African Americans who say THEY are THE BASE. Wrong. — Joan Walsh (@joanwalsh) April 7, 2011

@AngryBlackLady Can you elect YOUR preferred candidate without white progressives? This is destructive, and I'm done. — Joan Walsh (@joanwalsh) April 7, 2011

@truthrose1 Good night, life is too short for race baiting! — Joan Walsh (@joanwalsh) April 7, 2011

Nothing brings out the popcorn faster at LI than intra-progressive racial grievances.

And this past week possibly was the largest bucket of popcorn ever seen upon the face of the Earth, with the hashtag #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen.



The guy they’re talking about, Hugo Schwyzer, also is known as the Pasadena Porn Professor, who we have covered at College Insurrection, and you can read more about at The Other McCain. (By this point you’re thinking, this is the weirdest Saturday Night Card Game post ever.)

However it started, as convoluted as it was, the result was pure hysteria (via Al Jazeera)(click on the date of each tweet to see responses to it, some of which were more “interesting” than the tweet itself):

#SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen when being a white mother of 19 is applauded, but being a brown mother at 19 is denigrated. — Mikki Kendall (@Karnythia) August 12, 2013

#SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen when convos about gender pay gap ignore that white women earn higher wages than black, Latino and Native men. — Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) August 12, 2013

Miley sticks middle finger up in pics, smokes & wears grills = just her being a kid. Trayvon does it = hes a thug #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen — Mixed Girl Problems (@mixdgrlproblems) August 12, 2013

Here are a couple I pulled in between sips of soda:

#SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen is when Joan Walsh thinks she can collect black friends like pokemon — Neal Carter (@nealcarter) August 12, 2013



https://twitter.com/RoadToPalestine/status/366960793574576128

There was the inevitable mea white privilege culpas:

White feminists who seek to defend or buffer themselves from #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen are likely the most culpable. STOP. LISTEN. LEARN. — Lauren Rankin (@laurenarankin) August 14, 2013

It also brought out some new troll Twitter accounts, I suspect this was one of them:

#SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen is when WW pass laws which destroy families for their selfish gain. Many poc come from broken homes b/c of you. — Phoebe Kwon (@PhoebeKwon) August 14, 2013

#solidarityisforwhitewomen when WW make abortion a Womens rights issue instead of a Black Genocide issue. — Phoebe Kwon (@PhoebeKwon) August 14, 2013

More at Twitchy, which noted that the hashtag was trending in the U.S.:

#solidarityisforwhitewomen shows up at this time as Trend in United States pic.twitter.com/miBUSlWwcg — Trendinalia USA (@trendinaliaUS) August 13, 2013

Then there was a spin-off hashtag: #blackpowerisforblackmen, which became really bitter, really fast:

#blackpowerisforblackmen when you can call out racism in the feminist movement but gloss over sexism in the black liberation movement. — Hangry Black Woman (@haaaymissatwell) August 14, 2013

#blackpowerisforblackmen When racism is such a big issue but you claim dark skinned women aren't attractive? — Eche Madubuike (@echemadubuike) August 14, 2013

Accept that BM are allowed to have standards for a mate while I must settle with any BM for the sake of Black Love #blackpowerisforblackmen — Bougie Black Girl (@BougieBlackGurl) August 13, 2013

Watching all this, I felt kinda guilty. Not for privilege, but for others having made the Saturday Night Card Game post basically write itself.

Update: Battleswarm has even more tweets, Shut Up White Women!



