Thread by @PennyRed

TLDR: misogynist extremism and white supremacy are linked and always have been.
In this generation especially, frustrated misogyny and sexual entitlement are key recruiting factors for the far right. Many modern extremists were radicalised through the incel/PUA manosphere. >

https://twitter.com/bungarsargon/status/1372198654732341250

>this is horrific in its own right, of course. Gender-based violence against women is ALREADY a hate crime.
But in many countries, it’s next to impossible to separate the logic of male supremacy from the logic of white supremacy. So much of the ideology of the latter is about >

> ‘protecting our women (sic)’. The logic, to paraphrase Ta-Nehisi Coates, is that white women are exclusively the property of white men, who must protect them from imagined outsiders. This dogma has been regurgitated by white supremacists from the 1920s to 2021. >

It’s absolute bollocks, of course, in case anyone needed reminding. Throughout the history of the colonial era, the Jim Crow era and beyond, it has been white and coloniser men who have raped BIPOC women, almost always with absolute impunity. >

Colonialism and rape culture grew up together, and sexual violence has always been part of the way that white and coloniser nations have demonstrated their power.

That, in part, is what is behind the racist, sexist idea of the ‘foreign temptress’. >

For as long as coloniser and slaveholder men have raped BIPOC women, there have been social narratives blaming that systemic violence on the victims. The idea was that white men were helpless against the overwhelming sexuality of these exotic ‘temptresses’. >

This logic is used to justify more violence against BIPOC women, who are not seen as deserving of the same ‘protection’ that white women are supposed to get from white men- they are already ‘fallen’, according to white patriarchy >

The suspect in the Atlanta shootings was directly echoing this language when he told police he murdered Asian women not because of their race, but to remove a ‘temptation’.

The idea that BIPOC women are a ‘temptation’- and that that makes it ok to hurt them- IS A RACIST TROPE.