I have some actual good news related to the women's March, which has unfortunately become
very toxic and counterproductive as a movement.
Um, over the last year or so, the women's march is replacing three inaugural board members
and cofounders who I've talked about before, three people who have been dogged by endless
problems of uh, a marginalizing people who aren't the right type of intersectional allegations
of antisemitism, marginalization of Jewish women who want to be part of the movement.
And I'm talking of course about Bob Bland to Mika Mallory and Linda Sarsour is our sewer
of course, is now a Bernie Sanders surrogate.
I told you that about a week or two ago, something that Bernie should be 110% disassociating
himself from maybe this will push him to do that.
Uh, there will be a new set of 16 board members coming in, including three Jewish women and
a trans woman and a whole bunch of other people.
Now, to be totally honest, this strikes me as too little, too late.
Um, I, the, the women's March name at this point is, uh, quite tarnished the relationships
with historically allied communities like the Jewish community, one of the forefront
civil rights advocate communities in the United States.
Historically, it may be irreparably afraid.
I'm not saying I want it to be, I'm saying it may be.
I'm glad that Mallory blend and Sarsour are going, bye bye.
But I'm just wondering out loud, not in a rhetorical sense, but I'm just wondering,
is this an organization that is going to have a role in the 2020 election because you have
a progressive movement that's more engaged than ever.
You have new coalitions of all kinds.
That includes a very, very list of groups that are ready to go and working on the ground.
The women's March has been dogged by these people.
It's become extremely divisive and to be honest, this is also, it's almost like too friendly,
a way of cutting ties with absolutely toxic people.
The three board members have stepped down.
It's unclear whether they were forced or not.
I still seems a little bit soft.
The statement that was put out by the women's march is completely gushing about the groundbreaking
work and sacrifices towards equal rights.
Unless of course you don't fit the right version of intersectionality, in which case you're
marginalized.
And it's also unclear how much the people that remain or are replacing them are fans
of, for example, Louis Farrakhan and the nation of Islam mill you with which Sarsour and Mallory
at least, and I'm not sure about Bob Bland, we're affiliated with, I just don't know and
I don't want to be little people when they make the right decision.
The right decision is that these three have no business being part of a group that claims
to be about inclusivity and egalitarianism and all of that.
No question about it.
At the same time, it's hard to see this and have sort of a renewed enthusiasm for an organization
whose rallies have become sort of secondary to the internal conflict and the discrediting
of potential and actual a constituent activists and it is sad because it started with at least
ideas that are really good ideas that I, that I'm behind.
The upside is that I do see the momentum of the progressive movement having legs in 2020
that go way beyond the women's March and that's a great thing.
The women's March at this point is not going to be central to what happens in 2020.
It's all of the other progressive activism which is so widespread at this point in time.
And that's a good thing.
We don't want a prominent organization to progressive activism that functions as a sort
of gatekeeper that says, well, Jewish women, they're not really intersectional in the way
that we want a, and now the, the question is, will Bernie Sanders Disavow Linda Sarsour
as a surrogate, a totally divisive character.
She shouldn't be involved with a good progressive campaign like the one that Bernie is running.
Uh, and by the way, I expected wholly negative reactions to my segment last week or the week
before saying, Linda Sarsour should not be a Bernie surrogate.
There was a little bit of that toxic left that didn't like it, but overwhelmingly positive,
overwhelmingly positive response to that and that that may have been an area I would have
previously self-censored on.
So that's great.