We need to talk about a troubling red-brown 'gender critical' alliance that seems to be brewing between @guardian writer @SusannaRustin and self-descried "reactionary feminist" and neo-Nazi 'Bronze Age Pervert'-promoter Mary Harrington. 
Before sharing Harrington's @unherd article above this morning, Rustin was invited over the weekend to read another piece of hers on a website called Palladium.
(Rustin was doing a spot of decorating, so it's unclear if she did in fact read the piece, or what she made of it…)
(Rustin was doing a spot of decorating, so it's unclear if she did in fact read the piece, or what she made of it…)
Palladium was notably founded by Jonah Bennett, the man behind now-defunct neo-Nazi site Social Matter.
Bennett's antisemitism & enthusiasm for Hitler was documented in this 2019 exposé by @hannahgais, including leaked emails about the "Jewish Question": archive.md/Vx7c0
Bennett's antisemitism & enthusiasm for Hitler was documented in this 2019 exposé by @hannahgais, including leaked emails about the "Jewish Question": archive.md/Vx7c0
Want to know who else wrote for both Palladium *and* Social Matter? None other than Costin Alamariu—aka Bronze Age Pervert—the neo-Nazi figure who openly calls for the "extermination of hundreds of millions".
Mary Harrington, for her part, described Bronze Age Pervert last week as a "genius". Unashamedly. In public.
https://twitter.com/Luke_Turner/status/1450785355578454016
As I've highlighted previously, this is the same neo-Nazi who was the subject of a @hopenothate report on antisemitism and misogyny, so Harrington can't be under any illusions at this stage that others can't see just what she's promoting.
https://twitter.com/Luke_Turner/status/1442428968821534720
This pipeline between neo-Nazi promoters spouting 'white genocide' conspiracy theories and an ostensibly respectable @guardian leader writer is apparently being constructed right before our eyes—all in the name of 'gender critical' alliance building.
https://twitter.com/lulu_nunn/status/1341375398127546375
It's important to interrogate the (let's call it) naivety on show here from @SusannaRustin. I truly hope this thread serves as a wake-up call for exactly what harmful networks one gives legitimacy to when one reaches out to self-described "reactionaries".
https://twitter.com/Luke_Turner/status/1450788137374998532
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