I am sorry that you feel that we aren’t there for you. I know I can placate you with “I am there, I support your message. I vote with you in mind too.” But, you don’t know me, you don’t have to believe me.

Sometimes I don’t go to demonstrations because I’m a mother and I’m terrified if something happens to me (violent…

Nahh..you’re predictable, Kara Brown. You only see one thing, all the time, every time. Black, Black, Black, Black, Black.

No. We have to cry like fucking babies because despite everyone getting a cookie, some people only had two raisins in theirs and others had four.

Is it in any way surprising that if you say, “X group of people always does this,” that members of X group who don’t do that are going to feel defensive and speak up? I would argue that what you’re observing is pretty much universal human behavior. Not that it’s good behavior, but it’s not unique to this group.

Yeah, I’m sure those young newly-inspired white women will be sure to show up at every future protest once they realize they’re being judged by everyone else there.

Says the woman who draws from the “white people are the worst” well weekly.

And you’re nothing if not contemptuous of every woman who comments on this site

Said the pot to the kettle.

THIS EXACTLY. I really don’t understand the need to point out “why weren’t you here earlier?!” They’re here now. Welcome them, answer questions they have and fucking strap your boots on because we have work to do.

Said the (potentially white) male. I found this sign unnecessarily condescending. This is not how you win people over to helping in the fight.

I don’t think she’s saying she was “triggered” by that sign. I think she’s saying that telling protesters coming to a demonstration for the first time don’t need to be told that because they were too nice/white/Christian/congenial there presence wasn’t appreciated.

Kara Brown isn’t an activist. She is a professional complainer.

Totally missed my point, but you go on and rail and scream against white women if it makes you feel better. Cookie, up your ass.

Yes, I was making this point earlier. Essentially the march was a massive list-maker....now organizers need to grab these people and activate them. I didn’t march but I am a white woman involved in SURJ and my first point of order is to ask all marched to attending our next SURJ meeting. I think its way more effective…

You see it on the other side too. Like you can’t be Republican and denounce Trump unless you want to called a traitor. You have to be with him for everything or be left out in the cold. (Hello, Romney.) Because of this we ended up with the GOP as it is today. A monster on Capitol Hill.

I guess my question to this is: what if the answer to this question is “no, you won’t”? Then what? What if, hypothetically, I marched for reproductive rights, and I disagreed with literally everything else that other people were there for? Did I not belong there, then? Who’s the gatekeeper to a “women’s march” who…

Agreed. An activists job at a large successful action is not to whine about why the people who showed up weren’t at the previous actions, but to do something — other than whining — to make sure as many of them as possible come back to the next one. This article is not helpful.

Yeah, that’ll make the first-time marchers feel great. Can we stop picking at people who gave enough of a shit to come out and march in January, and then tell them it isn’t good enough? I think all women need to be respectful of the new-to-protest women who are now galvanized. Coming together on commonalities and…

What’s with these purity tests that people on the left require of one another?

I attended in Little Rock, which was much, much smaller, but I also thought about the “woo-hoo” girls more frequently than I expected. I don’t know. On the one hand, a lot of people seem very confused about the intentions, which I don’t think is a sign of a super successful march. I also know several people who felt…