Thread by @WomensLibFront

People keep wanting to drag us back into their partisan leftist political projects, and that’s just not going to happen, for some several reasons.

Chiefly, we’re a tax-deductible charity, and we can’t say anything about whether or not people running for office had ought to be elected, because it’s against the law.

This is a sensible rule that prevents the government from subsidizing political contributions with tax deductions. It would be good if people would stop asking us to break this law, then getting mad when we won’t.

Please stop asking us to break the law. If there weren’t enough other indicators of why the advice of certain people isn’t worth the cost of a Twitter account, the fact that they keep asking us to do this should be a big, red flag to others.

Our work to date hasn’t been about saying who should be in office, neither who should be elected, which we can’t discuss, nor who should be appointed, which we haven’t previously said anything about.

We are a very small organization, and, though growing at present, we’ve gotten the best use of our resources from asking people who are in office, or positions of authority, whomever they happen to be, to consider our arguments.

Maybe we’ll do a few things differently later on down the road, though still within the law, of course, but right now we’re focusing on the issues where we provide the least-duplicated advocacy.

We’ve also been asked, in a ‘when did you stop kicking your dog’ sort of way, if we denounce white supremacy or the Proud Boys. We’ve never supported either, and the insinuation that we do is degrading to everyone.

Yes, people who want a white ethnostate, want to bring back lynching, minimize the horrors of slavery, or are in favor of ethnic cleansing, believe terrible things that we want no part of. We don’t work with anyone like that, and suspect they are fortunately thin on the ground.

We’re not here to do performative callouts for the entertainment of people who refuse to prioritize women’s rights in their politics, and whose analysis seems to have culminated in an everyone-I-don’t-like-is-Hitler stance. The point of Godwin’s law has really missed some of you.