Thread by @monaeltahawy

I moved to the US in 2000. I’ve learned that many white Americans have a delusional amount of confidence in their govt & its institutions.They’re childishly naive in believing institutions will save them from state power which they think will work for them feministgiant.substack.com/p/if-amy-coney…

That stubborn belief in U.S. exceptionalism undergirds the refusal to see the fascism that Trump brought. Black, Indigenuous, and people of colour have no such delusions. They do not expect institutions to protect them because they are so often hurt by those institutions.

No matter how often those of us from authoritarian countries who know to be suspicious of state power & those of us who’ve fought fascism--be it via military rule/rule of religious fundamentalists--warned, white Americans arrogantly shook their head it couldn’t happen here

And no matter how often we warned you that the fate of nations is not a straight line bending towards a “manifest destiny,” you only saw Iran and women in chadors or Afghanistan and women in burqas and refused to believe that their fate awaited you. #AmyConeyBarrett

That fate never comes overnight.

Just as Trump is not an aberration, but rather a fruition of decades of white supremacist,misogynist, bigoted rot,so too is the conservative dominance of the Supreme Court, which conservatives have worked for since the early 70s #AmyConeyBarrett

Amy Coney Barrett is not an aberration. She is the fruition of decades of work by white supremacist patriarchy. Even if they don’t belong to charismatic Christian groups that worship in tongues, white GOP women know what to say & do to benefit from proximity to power of white men

And liberal, affluent, white cis women thought as long as Roe v. Wade survived, they could ignore whatever the Christians were saying all along - since the 1970s. In the U.S., white and Chrisitian is considered the default, a norm, not scary, not brown or Muslim or pathologized.

They remained wilfully ignorant to the fact that Roe v. Wade died for many Black and women of colour and poor women in the South, where one after another clinics that provide abortions were being shuttered. #AmyConeyBarrett feministgiant.substack.com/p/if-amy-coney…

White liberal women want to save Muslim women-preferably over there somewhere-and white conservative women want to feel superior to Muslim women & so refuse to see anything in their beliefs that consigns them to the subservience & submission they think Muslim women must live with

This isn’t “my flavour of patriarchy is tastier than yours.” This is “fuck the patriarchy everywhere.” This is a wake the fuck up because clearly you’ve been drifting, cruising on the delusions that your whiteness will save you from white supremacist patriarchy.

Nothing will.

#AmyConeyBarrett is here to stick her middle finger up your smug, white feminism. She probably would never stick her middle finger up anything but I want you to imagine her doing that as white supremacist patriarchy anoints her Conservative Feminist Queen.

I’ll be fucking damned if I tiptoe around #AmyConeyBarrett. If you finally recognize disaster she adds to the Supreme Court, did you see the harm the SC brought so many of us when it greenlit Trump’s Muslim Ban, ways it has long failed Black & indigenous & working class people?

When I moved back to the US from Egypt in 2017, I semi-joked I was returning to save white women. Reverse Saviour Sundrome.

Well, here I am. Telling you what to do: Fight. Hard.

No one saves you. You save yourself. Patriarchy is over here, not just over there.

#AmyConeyBarrett

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