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On white women and their “henna crowns”
Thanks so much for taking on all these people screaming about the white cancer patients’ “right” to play dress-up as Indians to make themselves feel better. I don’t have the energy to do it myself, so it’s very much appreciated - as everything you do.
It really, really hurts to see that because it is really the most disgusting and hurtful flaunting of privilege. What the defenders are saying is that cancer patients, or the sick, the suffering and the dying, have a right to comfort and to be treated with empathy and compassion. What I want to ask the defenders is, Where is your compassion for Indian cancer patients? Where is your compassion for the Indian men, women and children who died being used as non-consenting test subjects for the drugs that are meant for you? Where is your empathy with the sick, suffering and dying in India who are told flat out that the life-saving cancer medication is meant for people in the First World and not for them?
Don’t we deserve comfort? Don’t we have mothers and grandmothers who are sick or dying? My mother was diagnosed with a brain tumour (not cancer, thankfully) four years ago, and she was saved by heroic Indian doctors and the amazing people who produce generic drugs in defiance of racist Western laws. She was one of the lucky ones. There are MILLIONS of Indian women who can’t even access life-saving medication let alone comfort and happiness and feeling beautiful and good about themselves. Their deaths are preventable; the only reason they’re dying is because white Western people have decided they are worthless and subhuman, and they have the power to enforce their evil ideology.
I am 100% sure that the people who have defended these white women have never spoken about, much less done anything about, these atrocities happening to the sick, suffering and dying people in India. So that means their compassion and empathy is NOT for cancer patients at all; their compassion and empathy is only for white cancer patients. This is racism.
These women have privilege. White women – even and ESPECIALLY cancer patients, the sick, suffering and dying white women are immensely privileged over Indians in the same situation. They have the privilege to have access to medication that could save their lives. They have the privilege to be treated as patients (human beings) rather than test subjects (animals). They have the privilege to be directly benefited by our oppression – real, harmful things like using us as test subjects and denying us life-saving medication.
Cultural appropriation of this sort is like telling someong they are worthless, murdering them and then wearing their skin. It’s vampiric, because not only do you suck our life-blood and profit off our deaths, but you need to take our culture and identities too. It’s perverse and it’s shocking in its cruelty and contempt for humanity. And they think it’s beautiful.
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