John Pilger: The Hijacking of Feminism
Channel: WrongKindofGreen
Date: 2017-01-26

A brilliant lecture by John Pilger. [April, 2012, Melbourne, Australia. Hosted by Socialist Alternative (AU) and the International Socialist Organisation of Aotearoa (NZ) was held over the Easter long weekend at the University of Melbourne.]

Pilger is recognized the world over for his investigative journalism. His many awards include:
- British Academy of Film and Television Arts - The Richard Dimbleby Award
- American Television Academy Award ('Emmy')
- International Reporter of the Year
- Journalist of the Year

Wrong Kind of Green. January 25, 2017:

Today's liberal feminism is a sinister 21st century variant of historical feminism. It is one key apparatus of many currently being utilized by the capitalist system rooted in patriarchy, misogyny and racism. This nefarious system employs trillions of dollars funneled through the non-profit industrial complex (via foundations) to protect and expand these formidable power structures. Today's liberal feminism is a racist fascism, bound by whiteness, privilege and class, that markets reformism and accommodationism under the clever guise of grassroots activism.

Liberal feminism provides an academic, psychological and social construct that subtly reinforces and reasserts the inferiority of non-Anglo, non-western populations in the most effective manner: by not speaking of and thereby not acknowledging their very existence. By choosing to stay silent in response to the decades of brutal invasion, occupation and bloodshed which only accelerated under the Obama administration (carried out by Hillary Clinton) non-Anglo women (and whole populations) of Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Palestine, Haiti, and countless other states targeted by U.S. imperialism are effectively rendered invisible. Disposable. In eradicating the very existence of these women and their children, the continuation of genocide can continue as it has in the Congo – with no dissent. The underlying, unspoken and agreed upon alibi that unites liberal feminism can be found in the words of Madeleine Albright: "we think the price is worth it". Liberal feminism reflects James Baldwin's intuitive observation: "the American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white."

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