Using #MeToo as a starting point, this paper argues that the cultural power of mainstream white feminism partly derives from the cultural power of white tears. This in turn depends on the dehumanisation of people of colour, who were constructed in colonial ‘race science’ as incapable of complex feeling (Schuller, 2018). Colonialism also created a circuit between bourgeois white women’s tears and white men’s rage, often activated by allegations of rape, which operated in the service of economic extraction and exploitation. This circuit endures, abetting the criminal punishment system and the weaponisation of ‘women’s safety’ by the various border regimes of the right. It has especially been utilised by reactionary forms of feminism, which set themselves against sex workers and trans people. Such feminisms exemplify what I call ‘political whiteness’, which centres assertions of victimhood: through these, womanhood (and personhood) is claimed to the exclusion of the enemy. Through legitimating criminal punishment and border policing and dehumanising marginalised Others, claims to victimhood in mainstream feminism often end up strengthening the intersecting violence of racial capitalism and heteropatriarchy.

本文以#MeToo为起点，认为主流白人女权主义的文化力量部分源于白人眼泪的文化力量。反过来，这取决于有色人种的非人性化，这些人是在殖民地``种族科学''中被构造为无法产生复杂的感觉的（Schuller，2018）。殖民主义还在资产阶级白人妇女的眼泪和白人男子的愤怒之间造成了联系，这种联系经常被强奸指控所激活，而强奸指控是为经济剥削和剥削服务的。这条路经久不衰，教be了各种权利的边界政权的刑事处罚制度和“妇女安全”的武器化。女权主义的反动形式特别利用了它，使自己反对性工作者和跨性别者。这种女权主义体现了我所谓的“政治白皙”，集中于关于受害的断言：通过这些断言，妇女（和人格）被宣称排除在敌人之外。通过使刑罚合法化和维持边境治安，并使边缘化的其他人不人道，声称在主流女权主义中受害的人往往最终会加剧种族资本主义和异族父权制的相交暴力。