CNN's Kirsten Powers: All White Women Who Support Trump are 'Racist'

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CNN contributor Kirsten Powers declared during a live TV debate that all white women who support President Trump are "racist."

Powers' attack didn't end with Trump's die-hard supporters, however, as she claimed that if you are a white woman who voted for Trump in the 2016 election simply because you "didn't like Hillary Clinton," then that would "actually make you a racist."

Speaking to host Don Lemon, who warned the conversation would "stir up some controversy," Powers blasted white women who support their president, saying:

“They’ll say, ‘Well, I’m not racist. I just voted for him because, you know, I didn’t like Hillary Clinton.'

"And I just want to say that that’s not–that doesn’t make you not racist.

"It actually makes you racist.

"If you support somebody who does racist things, that makes you racist.

"So, I want to establish that.”

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“As for why white women do it, I think we have to recognize that white men are doing it as well.

"But I think sometimes we would hope that we would get better behavior from white women, because white women are themselves oppressed and that they would, therefore, be able to be aligned themselves with other oppressed people,” Powers explains.

Continuing she said, “But, I think we have to remember that the white patriarchal system actually benefits white women in a lot of the ways, and they’re attached to white men, who are benefitting from the system that was created by them, for them and their fathers and their husbands and their brothers are benefitting from the system, and so they are also benefitting.”

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While not offering her views on Trump-supporting white females, Powers can be caught giving lectures on the virtues of appropriate Halloween costumes:

Dear white people who are upset that you can't dress up as another race or culture for Halloween: your feelings don't matter. The only feelings that matter are of those who feel disrespected/mocked by you appropriating their culture for entertainment.

Show some common decency.

— Kirsten Powers (@KirstenPowers) October 23, 2018

"Dear white people who are upset that you can't dress up as another race or culture for Halloween: your feelings don't matter," Powers announced on Twitter in October.

"The only feelings that matter are of those who feel disrespected/mocked by you appropriating their culture for entertainment.

"Show some common decency."

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