There is nothing original about this woman. This is white guilt passed down through education. She is repeating what white guilt whites have said for decades. The "freedom" that she claims to want is actually what Shelby Steele has long called dissociation. She dissociates from what she sees as the sins of the West in order to gain innocence. A false innocence. Because the irony here is that this dissociation requires privilege. You cannot perform white guilt innocence about the West from Gaza. You need the nice house in London to do it. And the turtleneck.

As some of you know, I'm looking for a great historical American woman to write my next TV series about. I've narrowed it down to these four. Please vote and repost, I'd like to give one of these women their due respect. Mercy Otis Warren (1728–1814) A Massachusetts writer, political satirist, playwright, and historian of the Revolution. Before Common Sense or the Declaration of Independence, her anonymous satirical plays and essays (such as The Adulateur, The Defeat, and The Group) framed British officials as tyrants and helped radicalize colonial opinion. She corresponded with John and Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and others; hosted key political meetings; and later wrote a major three-volume History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution (1805), the first comprehensive history of the war by a woman and one of the few from an Anti-Federalist perspective. Her 1788 Observations on the New Constitution (published anonymously) criticized the lack of a bill of rights and helped pressure for those amendments. Mary Edwards Walker (1832–1919) The only woman ever awarded the Medal of Honor. She was one of the earliest women physicians in the U.S., became the first female U.S. Army surgeon (as a contract surgeon with the 52nd Ohio), treated the wounded near the front, crossed lines, and spent months as a Confederate prisoner. After the war she was a lifelong dress-reform advocate who wore men’s clothing, a suffrage activist (she argued the Constitution already gave women the vote), and an eccentric public figure. Her Medal of Honor was revoked in 1917 (along with many others) and restored in 1977. Virginia Hall (1906–1982) An American intelligence operative in World War II who worked first for Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) and then the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in Nazi-occupied France. After a hunting accident cost her part of one leg (she walked on a prosthetic she called “Cuthbert”), she became one of the first female agents dropped into France. She built resistance networks, organized sabotage (trains, bridges, supply lines), gathered intelligence, and helped pave the way for the Normandy invasion. The Gestapo called her one of the most dangerous Allied spies; she was the only civilian woman to receive the U.S. Distinguished Service Cross in the war. She declined a public White House ceremony to stay undercover. Her story stayed largely secret for decades and has only recently become better known through biographies. Elizabeth Van Lew (1818–1900) A wealthy Richmond, Virginia, Unionist who ran one of the most effective spy rings inside the Confederate capital during the Civil War. She established a relay system for coded messages, used contacts in government offices, and placed a former enslaved woman (Mary Bowser) inside Jefferson Davis’s household as a servant. Union commanders, including Ulysses S. Grant, credited her with some of the most valuable intelligence coming out of Richmond. After the city fell she was among the first to raise the U.S. flag; she later faced social ostracism and financial decline in the postwar South. Her network was sophisticated and high-risk, yet she remains far less famous than many male spies or generals of the period. I have two as favorites. Apparently I'm not allowed to post polls anymore so this will be a fill in vote.

*loses first 4 B1G games*