Thread by @monaeltahawy

With every attempt to ban, now in Mississippi, remember: It's what white supremacist Christian conservatives have been working for, while telling US women "be grateful you don't live over there (Muslim country)." I explain 👇🏽#DobbsvJackson #SCOTUS

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1466057035141812232

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 Chrisitian is considered the default, a norm, not scary, not brown or Muslim or pathologized

They remained willfully 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.

No matter how often we warned you that the fate of nations is not a straight line bending towards a “manifest destiny,” you only saw Iran & women in chadors or Afghanistan & women in burqas and refused to believe that their fate awaited you.

But that fate never comes overnight.

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 that’s exactly why white women have not been paying attention. feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney…

White supremacist patriarchy is their patriarchy. It looks and sounds just like them. It’s much easier to see Brown & Black men as the danger. That is where white supremacist patriarchy always kept the attention -- always promised to save white women from.

White liberal women want to save Muslim women - preferably "over there" - and white conservative women want to feel superior to Muslim women and so refuse to see anything in their beliefs that consigns them to the subservience & submission they think Muslim women must live with

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