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This Pandemic Exposes the Malignant Entitlement of White Women
The only community many white women seem to want to protect is their own
For the last few months, Americans have been asked to come together as a community to take care of each other by wearing masks, keeping our distance, and making sacrifices. These everyday inconveniences have saved countless lives, and could have saved more if we had started earlier. But as the pandemic stretches toward June, too many people have given up on the idea of protecting their neighbors.
Some Americans appear to have decided they’re tired of the pandemic and can just opt out. They want to have a normal summer, crowding with hundreds of other people at the lake, strolling on the boardwalk, or packing in by the thousands at a raceway.
The standard-bearers of this revolt against common-sense safeguards seem to have one thing in common: They’re white women. Whether berating a grocery store employee because they don’t want to wear a face mask, or refusing to leave a playground that’s been shut down for community safety, the most visible faces of the anti-lockdown movement look quite a lot alike. While men who want to “reopen” America have been employing scare tactics — like bringing firearms to protests — white women are making…
