Thread by @monaeltahawy

I moved to the U.S. in 2000. Over the past two decades, I have learned that many white Americans have a delusional amount of confidence in their government and its institutions. feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney… #Texas #SCOTUS #AbortionBan

They are childishly naive in believing that institutions will save them from state power, which they think will work for rather than ever hurt them. That stubborn belief in U.S. exceptionalism undergirds the refusal to see the fascism that Trump brought.

Black, Indigenous, 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.

And now liberal white women and those who only pay attention when it's abortions that could affect just them recognize the disaster that Supreme Court can bring. #SCOTUS #Texas #AbortionBan feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney…

Did they see the harm the Supreme Court has brought the rest of us who are not cis white women, when the highest court in the land greenlit Trump’s vow to ban Muslims and the ways it has long failed Black people, indigenous people, and working class people?

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 of the Supreme Court, which conservatives have worked for since the early 1970s. feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney…

Liberal, affluent, white cisgender women thought as long as Roe v. Wade survived, they could ignore whatever the Christians were saying all along - since the 1970s. In the U.S., white and Christian is considered the default, a norm, not scary, not brown or Muslim or pathologized.

They remained wilfully ignorant to the fact that Roe v. Wade died for many Black and women of colour and poor women in the South, where one after another clinics that provide abortions were being shuttered. #Texas #SCOTUS #AbortionBan

I refuse to submit to a hagiographic rendering of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Supreme Court on which she sat. I wrote this in Sept. 2020 feministgiant.com/p/whose-lives-…

“In addition to the Court’s devastating decisions upholding the Muslim Ban this week and Japanese internment in 1944, there have been centuries of Court decisions serving the governmental and societal structures of white supremacy," Chase Strangio

Understand that anyone who is not a white wealthy able-bodied, Christian, cisgender and heterosexual man is fucked. feministgiant.com/p/whose-lives-…

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