Every time I see Ashli Babbitt trending, I will remind you:
Ashli Babbitt never imagined the Capitol Police would shoot her because the police rarely shoot white women, unless it’s a cop who shoots his wife at home. #AshliBabbitt #January6th
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Ashli Babbitt never imagined the Capitol Police would shoot her because the police rarely shoot white women, unless it’s a cop who shoots his wife at home. #AshliBabbitt #January6th
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She never imagined she'd survive fighting for regime change “over there” only to die fighting for regime change “over here.” A 14yr Air Force vet who fought in Iraq & Afghanistan, she was the only person shot by Capitol Police while trying to storm the Congress of her own country
So eager of a footsoldier of white supremacist patriarchy was #AshliBabbitt that she was the first to scramble through a window in a door separating the insurrectionists from an area where members of Congress were sheltering from the mob.
That Trump et al are turning #AshliBabbitt into a "hero" is a reminder of the innocence afforded white womanhood.
Even when they join an insurrection, even as they pummel their way through the doors that held back the mob from the upper echelons of the U.S. government...
Even when they join an insurrection, even as they pummel their way through the doors that held back the mob from the upper echelons of the U.S. government...
...white women are still remembered for the best versions of themselves.
Women who joined ISIS were never afforded such an audacious innocence.
But those comparisons must be made. feministgiant.com/p/white-women-… #AshliBabbitt #January6th
Women who joined ISIS were never afforded such an audacious innocence.
But those comparisons must be made. feministgiant.com/p/white-women-… #AshliBabbitt #January6th
#AshliBabbitt and other white women who stormed the Capitol were supporters of QAnon, a far-right conspiracy movement that says Trump has been secretly fighting deep state enemies and a cabal of Satan-worshipping cannibals operating a child sex-trafficking ring.
QAnon is the latest polite mask for white supremacy and was instrumental in driving #Jan6
Although the media is full of male QAnon supporters who stormed the Capitol, QAnon--which the FBI labelled a domestic terror threat in 2019-- is driven largely by white women like Babbitt.
Although the media is full of male QAnon supporters who stormed the Capitol, QAnon--which the FBI labelled a domestic terror threat in 2019-- is driven largely by white women like Babbitt.
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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 Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert are their golden calves. feministgiant.com/p/a-white-supr… #AshliBabbitt #January6th
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