But here's the thing, Megyn, your outrage and empathy begin and end exactly as far as your own experience and no further. And that, my ersatz feminist friend, is a problem. It is a problem with your whole damn network and almost every damn right-winger I know.
Let me put it this way: if someone trips you, it is neither surprising nor courageous to take a stand against being tripped. If, on the other hand, a huge chunk of Americans are tripped daily and ask that they stop being tripped, you show up on the Fox Network and go all "If you don't want to get tripped, stop walking down the street, dumbass."
Megyn Kelly dedicated 45 segments to hammer on about the New Black Panther Party which was just, like, two guy who didn't even do anything. Megyn Kelly is a really smart woman who pretends she doesn't understand what's wrong with "#alllivesmatter." A 14 year old girl in a bikini is tackled and pinned to the ground by a grown-ass cop and Megyn Kelly wants to make sure you know that this child "was no saint." Megan Kelly thinks it's important that your kids know that Jesus and Santa are white because little black and brown kids need to recognize that if they want something, they're only going to get it when a white person gives it to them, up to and including, I suppose, eternal salvation.
Let's not make a hero of Megyn Kelly. Megyn Kelly is a Fox company woman.
Hillary, for the love of the FSM, stop.
That said, my fellow white progressives, before we are fully free to excoriate Megyn, we had oughta clean up own house. It's a little dirty now. For example: #blacklivesmatter interrupted a couple of Bernie Sanders events and white progressives committed the greatest white people problem there is and got all wearily mad because, goddammit, we always know best for everyone. Jesus and Santa were white, right? Wait...
Look, I get it. I like Bernie Sanders. I like Bernie Sanders a whole lot. I think Bernie Sanders would be the best president for all Americans. I think his point that black Americans suffer more for economic disparity than all other groups is fair. Except that's not it, right? If you're black, it doesn't really matter how gainfully employed you are. Your life is riskier. No matter what.
And progressives and liberals need to bear that in mind. White feminists like me need to bear that in mind. And we all need to stop getting our feelings hurt when #blacklivesmatter activists fail to be fawning and grateful. Got to clean that house.
#BlackLivesMatter interrupted Bernie Sanders a couple of times. Bernie Sanders, who really is a good progressive, listened instead of getting all butthurt. He hired a young, black racial justice activist as his national press secretary and, working with her, put together a racial justice platform. In other words, #blacklivesmatter engaged in some really successful activism. They weren't just peeing in progressive cornflakes.
Also, not for nothing, remember this: when we condescend to successful activists, it makes us look kinda dumb.
