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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 feministgiant.com/p/white-women-… #January6th

Then Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert are their golden calves. feministgiant.com/p/a-white-supr… #January6th

The insurrectionists within the Capital and without were not revolutionaries.

They were not fighting a tyrannical state.

They were fighting to extend the tyranny of white supremacy, which has seen its fruition in Donald J. Trump. #January6th

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A 2017 study into right-wing populist voters in Germany, France, Greece, Poland, Sweden and Hungary found that women are increasingly drawn to right-wing populist parties and are often more radical than their male peers. dw.com/en/women-incre… #January6

Ashli Babbitt (the only insurrectionist shot dead on #January6th) and Rosanne Boyland who died during a stampede on that day, were supporters of QAnon, a far-right conspiracy movement.

Greene and Boebert also supported QAnon. feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…

Although the media is full of male QAnon supporters who stormed the Capitol on #January6th, QAnon--which the FBI labelled a domestic terror threat in 2019-- is driven largely by suburban WHITE WOMEN - particularly mothers. US media headlines hide behind "women" and "housewives."

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, white women are still remembered for the best versions of themselves. #January6th

Women who joined ISIS were never afforded such an audacious innocence.

But those comparisons must be made. feministgiant.com/p/white-women-… #January6th

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