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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the PP upthread, as a white woman I really appreciate your thoughtful post and also for your speaking up for women.  I know you are more likely to be assaulted than I am, but I have been harassed on the street by homeless men of various races, and I do feel at risk in a way that I think men do not.  (The homeless guy who poured a gallon of urine on someone last fall?  You can het it wasn’t another guy!).  But it’s complicated  for white woman to speak up about crime.  When they took SROs out of our schools, there was a discussion at the PTA meeting and even though I supported the program, I did not feel comfortable saying that—in part because as a suite person I don’t really know what the impact of the program is on black students.  So while I don’t want to put more work on our Black sisters, I really appreciate it when they provide their thoughts and perspective on these criminal Justice issues.  In fact, I think it’s their viewpoints I am most interested in, as they live at the intersection of two different forms of disadvantage, so they are uniquely situation to see the nuance in some of these problems.  [/quote]
The people pushing these crazy, damaging policies the hardest are white women. So, instead of making excuses to sit silent, you should talk to your fellow white women. You should talk to white men too.[/quote]

This. Maybe they get too emotional to find rational solutions. [/quote]
Nope. It’s selfishness posing as politics. They advocate policies that hurt other people, not them. [/quote]

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