Thread by @monaeltahawy

I wrote this 2 days after the November election: “Trump said out loud what so many whispered. He was never an aberration, but rather a fruition of decades of white supremacist, misogynist, bigoted rot.” feministgiant.com/p/essay-femini…

“My concern if Joe Biden wins the presidency is that the white liberals who spent the Trump era crying  “This isn’t my America” (sidenote: WHAT FUCKING AMERICA HAVE YOU BEEN LIVING IN?) will now celebrate “My America is back!” and go on amnesia overdrive.”

Those of us who want liberation, remember.

Democrat or Republican, regardless of who occupies the White House, I fight the crimes of white supremacist patriarchy because the presidents never do.
And I refuse to let you forget the dangers of white supremacist patriarchy

So while of course I want Trump gone, I know much of what brought him will remain and that much of what brought him is this country and the white supremacist patriarchy that is foundational to it, and not only to the GOP. Patriarchy is not simply men nor is it simply misogyny.

White supremacy, misogyny, capitalism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, ageism: those are patriarchy’s oppressions that keep its dominance alive.

They won’t disappear, regardless of White House occupant for the next four years.

“as well as celebrating “This is my America again,” (Biden’s) white liberal supporters will take this as a chance to once again extol nonsensical & toxic fuckery of “civility” & “unity,” which...demands we delude ourselves into lockstep that benefits just white liberals”

White supremacist patriarchy is not defeated by embracing or reaching across the aisle to fascist enablers. When the GOP wins anything, no matter how narrowly, they act like “Fuck everyone WE OWN THIS!”

When the Democrats win, no matter how widely even, they are more eager to reach out across the aisle than they are to their own side.

I’m a tenaciously optimistic person. My optimism is saved from being foolish by my tenacity and that tenacity finds its teeth in feminism. 
Feminism is the antidote to conservatism.  a robust, unapologetic, incredibly rude “Fuck You, You Will Not Get Away With This” Feminism.

I don’t care who is in the White House. I am not a nice feminist. I am not a polite feminist. And I long ago dispensed with civility and unity. feministgiant.com/p/essay-femini…

More very soon. All my political analysis is done through a feminist lens.

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