Thread by @monaeltahawy

At the heart of white supremacist “replacement theory” that fuels massacres -El Paso, Christchurch- is racist idea that white people are being replaced by migrants, Muslims, etc. That racism recruits white men for violence & also the wombs of white women salon.com/2019/07/14/alt…

“If alt-right is galvanized by one overarching narrative, it is that demographic change will reduce whites to a hated minority & eventually lead to white extinction,” Alexandra Minna Stern, Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate:How the Alt-Right is Warping the American Imagination"

“One response to looming ‘white extinction anxiety’ is to produce white babies—many more white babies—principally of N & W European ancestry.

“‘Having 3—or 5 or 8—White children is probably the most ‘pro-White’thing a person can do—& the most resistant to any charge of ‘racism’”

“Appeals to ancestry abound in the alt-right, and nationalist women express some of the loudest calls for white-baby making.”

Wife with a Purpose, alt-right social media activist who chronicles her life as a proud nationalist & Mormon mother, issued a “white baby challenge.”

I describe white women voters for Trump as footsoldiers of the patriarchy. White supremacist women are walking incubators,(cishet) wombs of white supremacist patriarchy. Imperative to see misogyny & racism at play; misogyny these women willfully ignore in exchange for white power

The most pressing concern of white supremacist groups is falling birthrates. “That concern, which they see as an existential threat, has led to arguments about how women are working instead of raising families. The groups blame feminism...” @NellieBowles nytimes.com/2019/03/18/tec…

“The birthrate conversation — and the question that goes with it, of women’s continued freedom—has become a key recruitment tool for white supremacists. It is often the first political point of agreement a white supremacist recruiter online will find w/target, esp w/young people”

“Once a group of people in an online forum agree that declining white birthrates are an existential threat, then the conversation turns to policies. In some cases the response is that nonwhites should be killed. Often the response is white women need to be re-educated.”

Ironically, white supremacists, who are the first to complain that Muslims don’t belong in the “west” because “they don’t share our values,” also engage in:

“They are saying, ‘Look, Muslims have got their women where they need to be, and we’re not doing a good job at that.’”

In other words, white supremacists are at the same time complaining about the misogyny of brown men vs brown women and envying and wishing they could do the same.

White supremacist patriarchy.

White supremacist women have exchanged freedom from misogyny for white power.They’re not innocent/gullible victims.

“The power of these alt-right women to push the Overton window & move alt-right discourse into the mainstream should not be underestimated” Alexandra Minna Stern

“any examination of the alt-right must explore the networked and affective domains of white nationalist women. As wobbly as their position may be, they inarguably are one of the movement’s greatest assets.” salon.com/2019/07/14/alt… #WhiteSupremacistPatriarchy

To conclude: just minutes before the #ElPasoMassacre, the shooter posted a “hate-filled, anti-immigrant manifesto” that “spoke of a ‘Hispanic invasion of Texas,’...It warned that white people were being replaced by foreigners” google.com/amp/s/www.nyti… #WhiteSupremacistPatriarchy

As Alexandra Minna Stern reminds in Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right is Warping the American Imagination via @BeaconPressBks, there is a long history of white nationalism in the USA. This is not new. Trump is it’s fruition. #WhiteSupremacistPatriarchy

And from my new book

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1158108298798936064?s=21

#WhiteSupremacistPatriarchy