Hillary Clinton Feminist Analysis

Hillary Clinton is running a campaign for a GOP nomination, in which much of her support is based on her persona as an advocate of women’s rights. Depictions of Clinton’s projected image have little basis in fact. While she is not overtly misogynistic or racist like other politicians who are running for presidency, her actions as a policymaker have had the same devastating impacts to non-white women locally in America and abroad as her male peers. Though Clinton is one of the first women to run for presidency and be taken seriously (which certainly is to due to white privilege), she still condones foreign policies that destroy the lives of women around the world.
Hillary Clinton is allowed to occupy her platform as a feminist and amass enormous

In the U.S., feminism is understood as the rights of women (usually affluent white women) to share the spoils of capitalism, and imperial power. By refusing to fully confront the exclusions of non-whites, foreigners, and other marginalized groups from this vision, liberal feminists miss a crucial opportunity to create a more inclusive and more powerful movement. Feminist movements within the U.S. and internationally have long since accepted that, for them, feminism entails the communal confrontation of not only patriarchy, but capitalism, imperialism, white supremacy, and other forms of oppressions that combine together and reinforce their struggle. It means the fighting for the replacement of a system in which their rights are negated in the quest for corporate and political profit. It includes fighting so that all people anywhere on the gender, sexual, and body spectrum are allowed to enjoy basic rights like food, housing, healthcare, and control of their labor. This broader vision of feminism is present all over the world, like amongst the women of areas like Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan, whose oppression is constantly evoked by Western political leaders to justify war and occupation. For example, Malala Yousafzai stated her support for socialism and criticized U.S. orchestrated drone attacks for killing civilians, displacing

White women like Hillary Clinton, who have advantageously indoctrinated themselves into a mechanism of politics that entails the continued suffering of other women, especially non-white women become martyrs for their own brand of feminism, neglecting to analyze other forms of oppression that may affect women, like imperialism, classism, and race. It is no accident that non-white women, and women who live in regions that are or have been occupied by the U.S. around the world, and those who face mass political or economic repression in the U.S. are rarely given platforms to speak about their issues. The complex and multi-faceted struggles of non-white women go unheard, and for a reason too. To allow women who do not fit the Western liberal or corporate feminist model of womanhood a platform forces those who legitimize unjust wars and perpetuate racism through policies to confront their own prejudices, and the systematic brutality their nations enacts on various global societies, as well as within its borders. It is easy to claim and fabricate reasons as to why the war on drugs and terror are beneficial policies that will eventually help the greater good; it is another to examine what other types of oppressions exists that afflict the lives of otherized areas, especially the women in these areas. Western liberal feminism expects women to unanimously rejoice in the presidential election of