Kate Christensen
Aug 24, 2017 · 1 min read

You make a lot of good points here, but sometimes you just sound racist. The person who died in Charlottesville was a white feminist. She chanted, “Racists go home,” and when she died the Nazis said, “she is the definition of uselessness… a 32-year-old woman without children is a burden on society and has no value.” I don’t hear any concern for her lost life or for her family’s suffering.

I do hear a lot of anger about what people (particularly white women and Asians) post on Facebook.

Heather showed up to protest injustice — she didn’t just complain on Medium and delete white feminists on her Facebook page; she sacrificed her life.

If posting on Facebook is a litmus test of activism, we’re not going to see much change and if all you’re advocating for is anger and identity politics (PoC against white people), you’re working out of the Bannon playbook.

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    Kate Christensen

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    I love this puzzle of a world and the people in it. I teach Digital Strategy @CarnegieMellon. I value being innovative and compassionate.