“The truth is Lena Dunham’s feminism is exclusively for white women and white men. When she tweeted back in August “things women don’t lie about: rape.” she meant white women don’t lie about rape and furthermore white men don’t lie about not raping women of colour. Why else would she tweet so thoughtfully then, but today fix her Becky fingers to tweet “I believe in a lot of things but the first tenet of my politics is to hold up the people who have held me up…”?”

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