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'White Dudes for Harris' is the latest in a series of Zoom gatherings backing the vice president (apnews.com)

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[+] [email protected] -46 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (33 children)

Even if organized for a good purpose, gathering white dudes together as a social group feels icky as all hell. Like are there really specific "white male" issues that need to be addressed (edit: by the campaign) or did they just feel obligated to continue the pattern?

I haven't been tracking the speakers at these gatherings, but it also seems like the white dudes call gets all kinds of political and Hollywood stars, because almost all the VP hopefuls are white men and white men already have a disproportionate influence in entertainment because of lazy corporate sexism and racism.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 months ago

A friend who i like and trust very much shared a link. Because it came from him, i looked into it. I thought they had a nice writeup about contesting the white dude image. So it seemed less like "we're white men who like Harris" and more like "please don't think we're all trumpsters because of how we look."

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago

Was curious and ended up looking at the live stream for a bit. From what I saw they largely talked about the need to be a part of solidarity with other group's struggles and a need to step up in that fight

(Also worth noting that it was not organized by the Harris campaign as the article points out)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

There is a bit of an ick factor. But I think the counter argument would be that other white males who are on the fence would see this group, find theoretical solidarity, and potentially consider Harris.

That being said, as a white male, I'd feel weird joining a group that self-identified based on their white male-ness.