Thread by @monaeltahawy

White U.S. exceptionalism in action. In any country in Africa or Asia or in the Middle East, a hard needle to thread” would just be called what it is: treason, sedition, fascism, etc

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1346079722426535937

This mealy mouthed politeness and tip-toeing around fascism is capitulation.

This is not the time for euphemisms or politeness.

Fascism cannot be tip toed around.

The people who spent the Trump era crying  “This isn’t my America” (sidenote: WHAT FUCKING AMERICA HAVE YOU BEEN LIVING IN?) also insisted “it can’t happen here” when those of us who know authoritarianism warned them. Because why?

Because white America. feministgiant.com/p/essay-femini…

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

Those of us who come from countries where authoritarians steal election and continue to rule, often with the help of US administrations, we warned you that Trump was an authoritarian. We told you he was a fascist fuck. Fascism was “over there” you insisted, not “here.”

Trump’s authoritarian fuckery and the GOP’s criminal complicity will not be disappearing over night.

And I will keep saying pay attention. For more essays and analyses, sign up to FEMINIST GIANT

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Trump’s authoritarian fuckery and the GOP’s criminal complicity will not be disappearing over night. Neither will the Democrats’ spinelessness.

And I will keep wrecking all parties. This is from January 2020 in front of the White House. 🎥 @rerutled

That same stubborn white belief in US exceptionalism is the reason so many white Americans who did little against decades and decades of Black voter suppression are now upside down with fury and panic that white votes could be suppressed, that THEIR VOTES COULD BE SUPPRESSED.

I do not tip toe and I am not polite feministgiant.com