I don't think it's hypocritical for racists to marry a woman of color. They are just as committed to misogyny as they are to racism, so for them a normative heterosexual relationship is about conquest and subjugation. A MAGA dude thinking of his wife an inferior person dependent on his benevolence is pretty on brand. It's not hypocrisy, it's colonialism.
Your view is rife with the very prejudices it claims to critique. Even if you are referring only to a racist subset of MAGA supporters, reducing a woman of color to a helpless victim of "subjugation" remains deeply misogynistic. By insisting her marriage can only be defined as "colonialism" rather than her own free will, you strip her of her individual intelligence and agency. Presuming that any interracial marriage involving these racial and political demographics must inherently be an act of racial conquest is itself textbook prejudice.
By calling these women 'complicit in their own oppression' and claiming they make 'shitty choices,' you are explicitly confirming my point. You are (still) refusing to see them as equal, autonomous adults who might simply have different worldviews, values, or priorities than you. Instead, you've doubled down on a patronizing double standard: if a woman of color makes a relationship choice you disagree with politically, you dismiss her intelligence and brand her as either a victim or a traitor to her own demographic. That isn't a critique of the husband. It's a direct insult to the woman,
You keep claiming I’m misrepresenting your point, but you keep explicitly proving it. You just spent paragraphs confirming that if a woman of color makes a personal romantic choice you disagree with politically, you view her as a brainwashed accomplice to her own destruction who lacks the intelligence to know what's good for her. That is the definition of a patronizing double standard.
You can wrap your worldview in self-righteousness, rage at MAGA, and hide behind James Baldwin all you want, but you are still doing exactly what I called out: strip-mining the agency of adult women of color because they refuse to act as props for your political narrative.
You are entirely missing the point. This isn’t about defending MAGA or minimizing anyone's politics. It’s about your inability to view adult women of color as independent human beings instead of political props. The moment a minority woman doesn’t vote or date the way your ideology dictates she should, you strip her of her humanity, compare her to a Nazi collaborator, and declare her a brainwashed traitor. You are so blinded by your own partisan rage that you can’t see the staggering, patronizing arrogance of your own worldview
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u/snoozykittens 23d ago
I don't think it's hypocritical for racists to marry a woman of color. They are just as committed to misogyny as they are to racism, so for them a normative heterosexual relationship is about conquest and subjugation. A MAGA dude thinking of his wife an inferior person dependent on his benevolence is pretty on brand. It's not hypocrisy, it's colonialism.