Thread by @monaeltahawy

Marjorie Taylor Greene is a dangerous white supremacist. Expel her. h/t @rerutled

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1392849735703306243

If Marjorie Taylor Greene was a Muslim, she would be in Guantanamo Bay and in shackles. But because she is white, evangelical, and a woman, she is instead a member of the House of Representatives in the most powerful country in the world. feministgiant.com/p/if-marjorie-…

As recently as September, she posted on her candidate Facebook page an image of herself holding a gun alongside images of Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib and incited violence against them. cnn.com/2020/09/04/pol…

Greene was dangerous and vile long before she was elected but because much of her vileness was directed at Muslims, Black people, and Jews, Republicans shrugged and carried on being the craven shits they are, happy to throw their weight behind anyone who brings them votes.

Greene has been called “a Donald Trump in Heels." Republicans who should have done everything to ensure that she never ran, placated concerns about her with facile “I hope that she will grow and learn,” in office and, as they said about Trump. feministgiant.com/p/if-marjorie-…

It is imperative to recognize that Greene, like Trump, is not aberration. She is from Georgia, where 75% of white women voters chose a white man - Brian Kemp - vs Stacey Abrams for governor in 2018.

Southern women are the nexus of the GOP’s Southern Strategy’s reliance on race, gender, and religion to keep white people in that part of the U.S. resolutely Republican and increasingly right wing. White supremacist evangelical patriarchy has an army of white women footsoldiers.

The danger, always, is that someone as vile as Greene is normalized by the U.S. media.

White, blonde, Christian women--even the dangerous ideologues--are afforded the privilege of default and the audacity of innocence. Look at Elle magazine last year

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1350802497401720833?s=20

Look at Axios: Even as calls for her expulsion from Congress grew, Axios saw fit to create a false equivalence between Green and the Squad, including AOC, who she has again subjected to aggression.

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1355185966357614598?s=20

White, blonde, Christian women--even the dangerous ideologues--are afforded the privilege of default and the audacity of innocence.

Marjorie Taylor Green is one of the most dangerous people elected to the US Congress (and that's saying something). I wrote this about her and Lauren Boebert, another dangerous fanatic, and their support of the Jan. 6 insurrection feministgiant.com/p/a-white-supr…

*Southern white women

If Donald Trump could give birth, it would have been to Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, both of whom are clearly created in his image. He might have left, but they have just arrived.

Greene is part of red wave that made history in the November elections. The record # of GOP women who flipped blue seats red are anti-feminists who are helping to burnish the GOP's misogyny, i.e. "we can't be misogynists, look how many women were elected." feministgiant.com/p/a-white-supr…

The GOP has long been a party of white supremacy, misogyny, Islamophobia, and a host of other oppressions. And GOP women understand the very specific role they play to maintain it. They are also learning that to succeed vs the boys, they must outdo the boys in hate-- enter Greene

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