Thread by @monaeltahawy

How many members of the US Congress were too afraid to speak at today’s impeachment hearing or to support impeachment because they fear for their lives from white supremacist fascists?

And contrast with courage of @IlhanMN who has long been targeted by Trump and his disciples

https://twitter.com/rerutled/status/1349378172102586368

I wrote this in 2019 about the dangers @IlhanMN faces as a Black Muslim woman in hijab in a deeply racist, misogynistic and Islamophobic country. google.com/amp/s/www.nbcn…

While white members of the US Congress fear for their lives, remember Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are exactly what Trump and his white supremacist fascists hate most: Black and women of colour & Muslim. I wrote this after they were elected in 2018 google.com/amp/s/www.nbcn…

And remember that Lauren Boebert, one of two white women QAnon supporters elected to the US Congress and who called insurrectionists her “constituents” actually compared her semi-automatic pistol to Ilhan Omar’s hijab

And here is Lauren Boebert with the other QAnon-supporting member of the US Congress. Now tell me: whose lives are in danger? Who should fear for their lives and from whom?

The 2 female insurrectionists killed last week were supporters of QAnon, which was labeled a domestic terror threat in 2019 and is driven by white suburban women. One of them was from Georgia, Taylor Greene’s state. I wrote about them feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…

So while white US members of Congress are too scared to speak at impeachment hearings because they fear white supremacist fascists incited by their president, remember the audacious innocence afforded to white women and the fuckery they get away with

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1348660705906614272

That is the first of my essays looking at the insurrection from a feminist lens. More very soon.

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