Thread by @monaeltahawy

"The Church has relinquished too much authority to government. We should not be taking orders from the government. The government needs to be looking at the Church and saying "How do we do this effectively?" Lauren Boebert.

https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1437439475202859015

If they were not white, from any other country, or certainly if they were Muslim, women like Lauren Boebert would be called fanatics, thus is the privilege of whiteness. feministgiant.com/p/a-white-supr…

They might not have been among the fanatics who stormed the Capitol on Jan 6, but Greene and Boebert’s views very much make them fanatics within that same building.

If the female insurrectionists were footsoldiers of the white supremacist patriarchy who had misread proximity to the power of white men as their own power, then Greene and Boebert are their golden calves.

Lawmakers like Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene are emblematic of white women who undergird white supremacist, Christian evangelical, right-wing populism - as voters and candidates. feministgiant.com/p/a-white-supr…

So successful has white supremacist patriarchy been at convincing white women that they’re lucky to live in the U.S. and not Saudi Arabia or Iran, that so many white women did not pay enough attention to the theocracy that white supremacy was building right here at home.

It was being built by white men who look like their fathers, brothers, husbands, and sons, not the scary brown men with beards, right?

And white women like Lauren Boebert and Amy Coney Barrett feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney…

In the U.S., white and Christian is considered the default, a norm, not scary, not brown or Muslim or pathologized.

And so Lauren Boebert can scream and yell and call for the government to take orders from the Church as she is an elected official in the US Congress.

"The Church has relinquished too much authority to government. We should not be taking orders from the government. The government needs to be looking at the Church and saying "How do we do this effectively?" Lauren Boebert.

No matter how those of us familiar with ways religious fundamentalists use political power warned you about growing theocracy in the US,you only saw Iran & women in chadors or Afghanistan & women in burqas and refused to believe that their fate awaited you
feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney…

I call women like Boebert Footsoldiers of the White Supremacist Patriarchy. The above essays and others that analyze January 6 are all here.

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