
“Without solidarity, activism becomes difficult. Russia’s agenda was not to emphasize the differences between women and men any more than to incite women and men to quarrel with each other; instead, their efforts were directed at shredding women’s common goals by utilizing preexisting, legitimate causes fro criticism. The operation focused on three storylines: feminism is too white to advocate for Black women, feminism is too liberal to advocate for conservative women, and feminism is too affluent to advocate to poor women. All these topics are substantive; however, there is no chance of productive discussion if Russian military intelligence [the GRU & Glavset] and internet troll armies with fake chatbots and tweets on a scale possible only for state level actors.”
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