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What does a white dude want?

What does a white dude want?

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Virginia Heffernan
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“'The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer is: 'What does a white dude want?'” — Sigmund Freud [paraphrase]

What do white dudes want?

The age-old mystery might finally get an answer—this very night. 

Some 80,000 people are slated to join White Dudes for Harris, tonight’s Zoom pep rally for white men who support Kamala Harris. 

Mark Hamill, Pete Buttigieg, Adam Schiff, and NC Gov. Roy Cooper are on the dude marquee. Who else have they signed in the last three breakneck days? Eminem? Randy Rainbow? George W. Bush? 

Ever since I joined the galactic 164,000-woman Zoom call, “White Women: Answer The Call! Show up for Kamala Harris” on Thursday night, I’ve been mad with curiosity to see what the dudes will do.

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