My latest in PJ Media:
Elle magazine seems somewhat embarrassed by its list, published last week, of “20 Women of Color in Politics to Watch in 2020.” The article now carries this prominent disclaimer: “The below list was compiled by She the People, a national non profit network of women of color committed to social justice and voter mobilization. A previous version of this story did not make clear that the list was compiled by She the People and not ELLE magazine.” This was added because Elle faced a backlash for including the vehemently anti-Semitic Leftist activist Linda Sarsour on the list. But no one seems to have noticed another problem: the list is of “women of color,” and Sarsour is white.
Such minor quibbles will fall on deaf ears among Leftists. For the Left is at war not just with conservatives, but with reality itself. This has been clear for quite some time. Instead of trying to achieve some reconciliation with the nature of things as they are, the Left is growing ever more divorced from truth, reason, and ineluctable facts. For example, witness the hijab-wearing feminist (an oxymoron just as much as a white “woman of color,” as white is not a color in the Left’s world) Linda Sarsour’s magical race transformation.
It has been absurd enough to see Sarsour, a hijab-wearing defender of that most misogynistic of legal codes, Sharia, emerge as a champion of women’s rights and a feminist leader. But that was rational compared to the weapons-grade absurdity that Elle, or She The People, is now serving up regarding this palest of “women of color.”
The stage was set for Elle to anoint Sarsour as a “woman of color in politics to watch in 2020” several years ago, when the blogger Elder of Ziyon made an amazing discovery: Linda Sarsour claimed she “magically changed from white to a ‘woman of color’ in an instant,” just by putting on a hijab.
It’s true: in a Vox video published in January 2017, Sarsour said:
When I wasn’t wearing hijab I was just some ordinary white girl from New York City.
But in an April 2017 interview of this hero of feminism, there is this:
After watching Michelle Pfeiffer’s character in Dangerous Minds, Sarsour decided to become a high school teacher, “inspiring young people of color like me, to show them their potential.” She graduated a year early, gave birth to her eldest son, and enrolled in community college.
In the ensuing controversy, Linda Sarsour doubled down…
There is much more. Read the rest here.
Save Europe says
Yep. They’re damn right. She should be ‘watched.’
Permanently.
mortimer says
Forensic auditors should watch her and all her family and contacts. They will follow the money trail back to wealthy Arabs in the Middle East and to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas.
lawrence estavan says
Prejudice and progress: Local women with hijabs talk about what’s it like to wear the Muslim headscarf in Chicago
https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-life-my-hijab-meaning-05142019-story.html
leona little (@leonalittle16) says
The more that we see the hijab the more we are accepting of Islam. Just one more step to turn the USA into an Islamic Country. Read CLARION PROJECT article, How Islamists Mark Territory: Is the US going the way of Sweden?
gravenimage says
So true. The slave rag is a marker of Islamic supremacism. It also tells Muslim males who they may not rape–all unveiled women are fair game.
abad says
I stopped buying fashion magazines when they started having Moslem women “modeling” fashions, like that Gigi Hadid.
mortimer says
The Islamic veil is the most patriarchal piece of clothing in the world today. Sharia law is the most misogynistic code in the world today.
FYI says
So..
a white muslima+hijab= a “woman of color”
{That reminds me of clark kent
clark kent minus glasses=superman
superman minus glasses=clark kent.
It’s the SAME guy!..but lois lane doesn’t get it… just like linda sarsour doesn’t get it}
Linda sarsour is a woman of color:yes,the color white.Wearing a hijab does not change that.
Battle says
FYI: Next to last sentence: +100
Robert_k says
Joseph Goebbels was also a Man of Color with an agenda like Linda Sarsour’s
gravenimage says
Elle Magazine Puts White Linda Sarsour on Its List of ‘Women of Color in Politics to Watch in 2020’
………………
Remember that whiter-than-white Linda Sarsour is only a “woman of color” because of her Hijab:
“Linda Sarsour says her hijab transformed her from ‘white’ into a ‘person of color’”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/09/linda-sarsour-says-her-hijab-transformed-her-from-white-into-a-person-of-color
Ashley says
Two words for you, graven: Sinead O’Connor.
I’m pretty sure she commented after converting that she now harbors a hatred for white people.
Battle says
Ashley: +100
Save Europe says
She said precisely that Ashley.
I recall it vividly.
Phil Copson says
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown has certainly commented that she “hates Britishness”….
gravenimage says
Spot on, Ashley.
Mitch Kumstein says
Getting the yaya chopped count as a colored woman….????
Crusades Were Right says
Somebody tell Rachel Dolezal that she can put away the make-up kit! lol
Wellington says
Truly we live in an extra absurd era. Put another way there is no reason to respect a large majority of people in a position of authority, whether in the MSM, academia or in the political realm, because they are a bunch of clowns.
And then there is the matter of the worst religion of all time which keeps getting a pass by the clowns I referenced above. Double whammy.
Lu says
“getting a pass by the clowns I referenced above” – maybe not clowns, but rather entrepreneurs of sorts, profiting from the “business” they founded.
We should follow the money – it always explains motives obfuscated by something else.
Wellington says
Following a possible money trail is never a bad idea but it still does not negate the fact that these people are clowns. People who take money and by doing so endanger their society are dangerous clowns. And while money is often the motive for some activity, it is not always the case. Hitler, as an example, had no interest in money except as an aid to what really motivated him, i.e., the quest for complete power. Ditto for other brutal dictators for whom power, not money, was the ultimate motive. Stalin and Mao come to mind.
tgusa says
Which mental institutions did the editors of elle attend in order to get their degrees?
Since Linda is considered a person of color I guess you might as well call me pale rider.
tgusa says
To paraphrase Mel Brooks in Blazing Saddles, sheesh, she whiter than me.
CogitoErgoSum says
Joe Biden, take note: put on a hijab and identify as a woman if you want to win the Democratic nomination for President.
Go ahead Joe. Give it a try. You could be the first Muslim trans-woman of color to be elected U. S. President. No need to persuade Michelle Obama to run.
tedh754 says
This is the woman who told college students that Sharia is cool because they wouldn’t have to pay interest on their student loans! Yeah, and head chopping, hand chopping, women being stoned, gay rights go bye-bye. Some people are too stupid to survive.
Phil Copson says
But….but….aren’t we constantly being hectored by the Left that “cultural appropriation” by white people is some kind of crime ?
How much worse must “pigment appropriation” be…….?
Jayell says
“….’She the People’, a national non profit network of women of color committed to social justice and voter mobilization”……
A network for ‘women’ of ‘color’? So it’s racist AND sexist?
OLD GUY says
They are right about one thing she needs to be watched.