We’ve done a few posts on Saira Rao, whom we’d almost think is just a really, really clever parody account about wokeness and racism, but no, she’s real, and her threads are things to behold. She recently reminded all white people, even liberals, that they must internalize and accept the fact that Donald Trump is one of them.
She also suggested that Twitter add a “mute all white women” button, and white women seem to be on her mind again and she examines how to get white women to start their own “anti-racism journey.” How? Like she did, naturally.
Quite a few Black and brown women have recently asked me how they can help their white women friends understand white privilege, in the hopes that they'll start their anti-racism journey. In the hopes that their white women friends can become trustworthy.
— saira rao (@sairasameerarao) August 23, 2019
Here's what I've learned: whiteness is the most powerful drug on the planet. And if you, yourself, don't want to wean yourself off of whiteness, it can't and won't happen.
You have to not just want to wean yourself, you have to *desperately* want to wean yourself.— saira rao (@sairasameerarao) August 23, 2019
I was a white feminist until 2016. I was deeply self-loathing and internally oppressed. Nearly all my closest friends were white women. These women were in my wedding, and I in theirs. They cradled me when I wept for my dead mother. They would have done anything for me.
— saira rao (@sairasameerarao) August 23, 2019
EXCEPT GIVE UP WHITENESS.
I spent one full year meeting them for coffee, drinks, lunch, dinner. I sent them articles. I wrote articles. I sent them those. Rather than show an interest in awakening, nearly ALL of them, dumped me.— saira rao (@sairasameerarao) August 23, 2019
That’s a shock.
Dumping has involved a pinch of ghosting, a dash of "I'm really worried about you, WE are really worried about you." It's involved leaving me and my family out of group plans – and pretending it was an accident.
— saira rao (@sairasameerarao) August 23, 2019
It's involved leaving me out of group plans – and not pretending it was an accident. Some of these women weren't really even friends before, but have bonded over their mutual disdain for me and my "craziness."
They've bonded around WHITENESS.
— saira rao (@sairasameerarao) August 23, 2019
This is no different than the KKK. Instead of robes, they coalesce around brunch, weddings, spin classes.
I no longer harbor anger towards them. I'd be lying if I said it didn't make me sad from time to time, because it does.— saira rao (@sairasameerarao) August 23, 2019
So spin class is the new Klan meeting? OK.
But the overarching feelings I have are (a) UNDERSTANDING. Understanding how they are all just reading from their Whiteness Script. A script they received before they were born and (b) FEAR.
— saira rao (@sairasameerarao) August 23, 2019
Fear that if the intense love they had for me and my family wasn't enough to reflect on their own white supremacy, what hope do we have.
Those who love us still love whiteness more. By a long shot.
The most powerful drug on the planet.
— saira rao (@sairasameerarao) August 23, 2019
As for that advice: save your time, save your energy, save your heart. Until and unless they themselves want to eradicate the toxic whiteness embedded in their DNA, it'll never happen and you'll be crushed trying.
— saira rao (@sairasameerarao) August 23, 2019
Not to go all “party of science” on Rao, but whiteness is embedded in the DNA, and even if whiteness is inherently toxic, you can’t “eradicate” it. You could pull a Rachel Dolezal and pretend to be black, but your DNA will forever be inextricably linked with toxic whiteness.
This is a spectacular thread about someone becoming obnoxiously woke and alienating all their friends in the process. https://t.co/J53gnLl0iD
— neontaster (@neontaster) August 24, 2019
You can’t convince me she isn’t another @TitaniaMcGrath
— Jimni27 (@jimni27) August 24, 2019
They stopped inviting her places. What a shocker.
Definitely give up friends that were there for you when your mother died because they don’t agree with the amount of your wokeness.
— Kathleen McKinley (@KatMcKinley) August 24, 2019
She was dumped for the same reason people dump friends who sell Amway
— Toni B. (@tonsbee) August 24, 2019
I actually feel sympathy for her for the first time, like she's gone off the deep end, and who knows what drove that? Self-loathing, sure, but that's not a normal condition.
— ΧΡΙΣΤΌΦΟΡΟΣ bɝːd (@christopherburd) August 24, 2019
It didn’t used to be, anyway
— 2X (@2__X_) August 24, 2019
What a sad journey.
— Houndfather (@red_sci) August 24, 2019
She doesn’t deserve friends.
— Fat Jeremy (@BLTDayCobra) August 24, 2019
Key passage: “I was deeply self-loathing and internally oppressed.” Translation: pic.twitter.com/06Yw1XXADd
— John W. (@Bearcat50) August 24, 2019
Okay, that was shocking. Even for her.
I weep for the future.
— niceguyshawn (@niceguyshawn2) August 24, 2019
I read the whole thread, and I only have one question… she was a white feminist until 2016?
— Michael Pittman (@Michael8Pittman) August 24, 2019
She isn't even white, tho
I am so confused.
— Fantastic Automatic (@FantaAutoma) August 24, 2019
That HAS to be a parody account….please, for the love of God, let that be a parody account…
— Jeremy McDonald (@TrauMMASon) August 24, 2019
What the hell…? She just described her ex-friends‘ just living their lives as the KKK. She legit doesn’t realize they dumped her for being annoying and toxic. Wow.
— Erin S. (@ErinGoBORO) August 24, 2019
That is STAGGERING! She compared her closest friends to the KKK!
— Joe (@Chasing_Pluto) August 24, 2019
The KKK’s most terrifying tactics included failing to invite black Americans to “book club” and “forgetting” to return their phone calls.
— CITIZEN//ULTRAVIOLET (@ITMCitizen) August 24, 2019
Really sad story of a complete mental breakdown.
— Alpha Chicks (@alphachicks666) August 24, 2019
Truly insufferable. Can you imagine her friends' text thread about her slow descent into madness? I'm sure there weren't enough "WTF's" to go around. I mean, this woman is a sad sad story. Just a pitiful human being
— Reverend (@BozOzler) August 24, 2019
Related:
‘Bigot alert’! Blue-checked SJW Saira Rao tells ‘white folks’ their minority friends ACTUALLY think they’re racist and YEAH NO https://t.co/IPtYfhYXUf
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 2, 2019
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