@JWALLER On Racism
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the importance of women in society and the role of a woman in society. We also discuss the difference between being a feminist and being a black woman and what it means to be a feminist.
Transcript
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Did you actually agree or were you just trying to get to the next person?
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I think that a lot of, I think the term feminism has been almost changed in modern day time
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and made into almost like women need to overpower men
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and women need to take over the world kind of energy.
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Feminism is made to empower women and show men the importance of women in society.
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If it's so important, if you're, that's the point of empowering you.
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I mean, without, where would the world be without women?
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Like, where would you, you've come from a woman?
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You've learned most of what you've, growing up, who brought you up?
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You said that it's, our role is really important.
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And then you just said motherhood, which is, that existed before the feminist movement.
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How do you think the world's going to continue to go on without motherhood?
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So, what has a feminist movement done to prove that?
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Well, the feminist movement, if you're talking about what, what's it?
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The empowerment, all this girl boss thing that's going on right now.
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But feminism in itself is made to make the world see the value of women.
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They used to plan assassinations in the early 1900s.
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There's terrorist groups that are men and women.
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That's why I think feminism, in my opinion, is the problem when people want to label things.
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We have different experiences, different careers, different ones.
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So, if you start saying feminism, you start labeling everybody, it's a problem.
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Because a black woman's freaking experience is not the same as a white woman.
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So, when everybody's saying, oh, women, empower yourselves, we can't empower ourselves the same way.
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Some women are mothers, some women are not mothers.
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What is a black woman, what does that have to do with feminism?
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Because, for example, for me, just knowing the difference between my empowerment and the empowerment of my white girlfriends, it's very different.
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So, when somebody's telling me, oh, feminism, empower yourself, we're all the same.
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The same way that I don't believe that racism is actually something that many people should be speaking on.
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Because, even that, black experience is totally different depending on where you're from, what class you come from.
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So, women are not all the same just because we are women.
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This is, like, everything you're saying is why people think that feminists are just chatting.
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Because I'm just trying to explain that when you put people in the same bag every single time, it causes problems.
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So, you don't actually get to understand what the genuine problem is.
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And you start saying, oh, we want this, but then you don't know what you want.
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So, I already know that my experience is different.
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There's a lot of ways you're victimizing yourself.
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I don't really care about whether or not it was a situation that was black.
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So, you empower yourself by victimizing yourself.
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No, I empower myself by understanding that perhaps I may have a bigger hill to climb, so I'll train harder.
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I'm talking about something so you can understand that.
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What about what you've done in the world instead of all of these other things?
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And I understand the difference between me going into that job versus other people.
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What I'm trying to say is I'm not trying to make this about racism.
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I'm simply making a comparison to explain that.
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So, it's an analogy to explain another problem.
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When you put everybody in the same basket, it doesn't work.
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Because the problems are not just caused by gender.
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The problems are caused by these other factors that you're talking about.
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Yes, but it's caused by so many different things.
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You neglect the people that actually do need empowering.
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And I don't think it's fair to say that she shouldn't lead with her race and all of these things.
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Because when you look at us, the first thing you do see is my race.
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If I am a TV presenter, you're not going to look at me first as a TV presenter.
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It's the first thing I see when it's the first thing you say.
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But the majority are going to already have this stigma of me because I'm a black woman.
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But if you have that top of mind all the time, you're going to suppress yourself.
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That's like me assuming that y'all are going to hate me because I'm a straight white male.
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Why would I think that about you guys when we could just get along?
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Why are you being so challenging when I said...
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Because I hate to hear it coming out of your mouth because it's a poisonous thing for you to think.
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I'm a woman and I'm putting myself next to feminists.
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And I'm saying, whatever your empowerment movement is, is not the same as mine.
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So, don't actually label me to be in that situation and say, oh, women want this.
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So, essentially, if I stand next to a feminist, yeah, for example, a white woman...
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You're about to say, I can't box myself in with you because I'm black.
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What I'm saying is, I am not the same woman as you.
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What I want and what I see to be empowerment is not the same.
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Whether it's culturally, whether it's racially, whether it's professionally, academically, personally,
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Women cannot be boxed into the same box because we're not the same.
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So, you're making an anti-feminist argument because she's black.
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But you want to have other things to complain about.
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I know the things that are not right and I know the things that are right.
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That's why I mentioned, for example, things like race is a gray area in the middle that
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makes it say, oh, yeah, feminism may not actually be as accurate as people are saying.
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That is why people come across feminists and they don't know what they want because one wants
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this, the other one wants this, and the other one wants this because they are different.
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And that is why feminism, in my opinion, is destructive.
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I think she's just acknowledging a serious issue in society.
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That's how they keep people broken at the bottom and arguing about nothing and thinking
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My point is your existence is a sum of your beliefs and your thoughts.
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And if you're always thinking that I'm a victim because I'm black, I'm not a feminist
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because of this, I'm an immigrant, then you know what's going to happen?
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At a certain level of wealth and at a certain level of status, people never discuss things
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People never discuss like, I'm an immigrant, so it was hard.
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Winners only see green because the truth of the matter is like, I own a business, right?
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If somebody turns up and does their job and they're profitable for my company, I cannot
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afford to give a fuck about their race, religion, hair, gender, any of that stuff because
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As many of you know, I was just banned on TikTok and we are demonetized on a daily basis on this
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