The alt-right hates women as much as it hates people of colour

[niyad]

The alt-right hates women as much as it hates people of colour
Matthew N Lyons

The alt-right was key in getting Trump into power. But its strain of misogyny differs in sometimes surprising ways to that of the traditional Christian right

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Arthur Jones, chairman of the America First Committee, takes photos at a rally in Pikeville, Kentucky. Photograph: Pat Jarrett


One hundred days on from Donald Trump entering the White House with its help, what will the alt-right do next? The small, loosely organised movement, which has helped to revitalise far-right politics in the United States, has made skilful use of internet activism and has a receptive ear in Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon, who as former head of Breitbart News once proclaimed his network “the platform of the alt-right”. More than shaping White House policy, however, the alt-right’s greatest impact may come from its efforts to shift the political culture.

Although best known for its white nationalist brand of racist ideology, there’s growing recognition that patriarchal politics is also central to the movement. Several observers have pointed out that the alt-right advocates not just white supremacy, but more specifically white male supremacy, that the movement feeds on “toxic resentment of women”, and that sexism serves as a “gateway drug” pulling a lot of young men into it. The few alt-right women who have been profiled embrace their own subordination.

Missing from these accounts is a recognition that the alt-right is reshaping patriarchal politics. Its version of male supremacy is not just more explicit or aggressive – it’s strikingly different from the version that’s been dominant among US rightists for decades.

Consider abortion. Some alt-rightists, unsurprisingly, argue that abortion is simply immoral and should be banned. Yet many others in the movement disagree – and for reasons that have nothing to do with respecting women’s autonomy or privacy. These alt-rightists support legal abortion because, they claim, it’s disproportionately used by black and Latina women and, secondarily, because they see it as a way to weed out “defective” white babies. In other words, they support abortion as a form of eugenics. Both sides of this internal alt-right debate agree that women have no business controlling their own bodies. As Greg Johnson of the alt-right website Counter-Currents put it, “in a White Nationalist society … some abortions should be forbidden, others should be mandatory, but under no circumstances should they simply be a matter of a woman’s choice”.

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/02/alt-right-hates-women-non-white-trump-christian-right-abortion

[ck4829]

1. Adam Lanza, Elliot Rodger, and Dylann Roof Wannabes. That's what the Alt-Right is

The loudest ones are too cowardly to do anything so they just rile up the ones stupid enough to murder people before getting gunned down themselves.

[Turn CO Blue]

2. Yep, you go back a couple of years on dark sites look at PUA forums, MRM and gamergate crap, and

many of those types just merged right into the alt-right.

Deplorables, all.

Full of hate and violence.

[Orrex]

3. If you wimmin would simply learn your place as chattel, this wouldn't be an issue

No surprise that these hateful bigots don't limit their hate to people of color. They see white males as the pinnacle of human perfection, so anything that's not white or not male is to be despised.

[niyad]

12. yes, we uppity wimmins are soooo annoying!

[CousinIT]

4. What's behind this: Reproductive Rights and the Long Hand of Slave Breeding (SLAVERY)

https://www.thenation.com/article/reproductive-rights-and-long-hand-slave-breeding/

[CrispyQ]

6. Excellent article. Thanks for posting.

[niyad]

10. PLEASE post this as its own OP, for needed visibility for this VERY important topic.

[CrispyQ]

5. Both groups are scary as fuck. -nt

[nikibatts]

7. And most especially women of colour.

[Yavin4]

8. Possibly more

Most alt-right people never even deal with a person of color.

[librechik]

9. and liberals, who love them both as brothers and sisters

that's straight from the agenda of Jeff Sessions, who once said the only thing he hates more than marijuana are whitte kids who smoke it (because it's a race thing)

[niyad]

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