Thread by @monaeltahawy

If they were not white, from any other country, or certainly if they were Muslim, these women would be called fanatics, thus is the privilege of whiteness - the audacious innocence afforded to white womanhood. So I am calling them fanatics.

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1350054759236038656

White womanhood is privilege sweetened with an innocence and fragility that white women--liberal or conservative, Trump-voting or not--are adept at weaponizing. 

So I am calling them fanatics. feministgiant.com/p/a-white-supr…

These too are fanatics: the white women who stormed the Capitol.

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

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Even when they join insurrection, pummel through the doors that held back the mob from the upper echelons of the govt, white women are still remembered for the best versions of themselves. Women who joined ISIS were never afforded such audacious innocence feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…

Compare the zeal with which the U.S. has profiled, pursued, entrapped and surveilled Muslims suspected of terrorism with the reluctance bordering on complicity that it reserves for investigating or taking seriously white domestic terror.

Now imagine the authorities profiling, pursuing, entrapping, and surveilling white women, especially now that we know how eager they were to join an insurrection, including a female veteran who zealously carried out here what she was trained to do overseas.

The very idea is laughable - profiling white women!

Understand that I don't want anyone profiled or surveilled. I want you instead to see how much white womanhood gets away with.