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White woman calling out imaginary white women while an entire courtroom is filled with white women who worship a white guy
This is a great example of how white people, and white women in particular in this instance, will co-opt language around racism to defend the status quo (aka, their white favs). Princess Weekes pointed out in their video on true crime and the theater of safety (around the 17:00 mark) that white people have been throwing around the term “white woman tears” during this case to describe Amber’s testimony about her rape – the rape allegations she is making against her ex-husband who is also a powerful WHITE MAN.
These terms were created to describe how white women weaponize their white womanhood to level false accusations against innocent men of color and ethnically vulnerable populations to get them murdered; men like Leo Frank, and even boys, like Emmett Till.
Johnny Depp is a rich and powerful white man who abused his wife. It’s disgusting and disrespectful that white people are co-opting this language to defend a piece of shit abuser. It’s also disheartening, because I already know that when the sensationalism around the case dies out and it becomes clear to everyone that they were senselessly harassing a survivor of abuse, white people are going turn right back around and use this to discount people of color and our experiences white whiteness and white womanhood - never mind that it was other white people, and specifically white women, co-opting language about whiteness to defend a powerful white man.
