Thread by @monaeltahawy

I understand the need to tell Matt Gaetz et al to shut the fuck up, but a "top U.S. military leader " isn't the one to do it:
-For many parts of the world, the U.S. military is the embodiment of white rage
-Military vets were overrepresented in those charged w/Jan 6 involvement

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1407801104461611009

Remember Ashli Babbitt: The 14-year Air Force veteran who fought in both Iraq and Afghanistan was the only person shot by Capitol Police while trying to storm the Congress of her own country. feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…

An NPR analysis has found that nearly 1 in 5 people charged over their alleged involvement in the attack on the U.S. Capitol appear to have a military history. npr.org/2021/01/21/958…

So when Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley says he “wants to understand white rage and I am white,” does he also want to understand why military veterans were over represented in those charged in the Jan. 6 insurrection?

The military is not going to save us from the Republicans.

It was not overnight white supremacy--and rage--that drove the 1 in 5 people with military histories who took part in the insurrection. So what do they teach in military academies and boot camps, what do they ignore in those settings?
A four-star general should know that.

Ashli Babbitt and those vets of Jan. 6 reminded me of the men who joined the mujahideen to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan only to return home to Egypt or Algeria and turn their guns on governments there. Is the U.S. ready to make those connections? feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…

Another vet and insurrectionist: Like Ashli Babbitt, Jessica Watson is a white woman and a veteran of the US war in Afghanistan. Babbitt was Air Force. Watson was Army.

Thread about white women who stormed the Capitol

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1348660705906614272?s=20

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Gen. Milley in uniform joined Trump for the now infamous photo opp in June 2020 for which protestors were violently cleared. He apologized and said he should not have been there. Generals are not going to save us from Republicans, Gaetz or anyone
cnn.com/2020/06/11/pol…

This Gen. Milley vs Matt Gaetz thing reminds me of "adults in the room" when generals were Trump's chief of staff and Defence Secretary. Generals will not save us. The military *is* part of "white rage."