Thread by @monaeltahawy

I’ve been calling them the Christian Brotherhood, since I moved to the US. The Muslim Brotherhood in my country of birth Egypt never dreamed of ever having this much power.

https://twitter.com/schenhayes/status/1350124441645281292

“If more white women - liberal and conservative - had fought white supremacist patriarchy as zealously as they fight Brown Muslim patriarchy, if they had obsessed less over Muslim women and more with their own oppression, we would not have had Trump...” feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney…

So successful has white supremacist patriarchy been at convincing white women that they’re lucky to live in the U.S. and not Saudi Arabia or Iran, that so many white women did not pay enough attention to the theocracy that white supremacy was building right here at home.

It was being built by white men who look like their fathers, brothers, husbands, and sons, not the scary brown men with beards, right?

I moved to the U.S. in 2000. I have learned that many white Americans have a delusional amount of confidence in their govt and its institutions.

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 we from authoritarian countries who know to be suspicious of state power & those of us who have fought fascism -- be it via military rule/rule of religious fundamentalists -- warned & warned, white Americans arrogantly shook head that 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.

But 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

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In November: a record-breaking 17 new female GOP lawmakers were elected to Congress. The women who flipped blue seats red are anti-feminists who are enjoying the fruits of what feminism has long fought for as they cut feminism at its knees. feministgiant.com/p/a-white-supr…

I’ll be writing more on the conservative women who are Footsoldiers of the Patriarchy.

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I vehemently oppose “political Islam,””political Christianity,” political any-religion. Politics in religion benefit cishet men. theguardian.com/world/2021/jan…