Thread by @monaeltahawy

This is a message to white people in the US: Conservatives have worked since the early 1970s for this moment of overturning #RoeVsWade. Because they're white and Christian, their danger was not taken seriously. And here we are. #SCOTUS

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Liberal, affluent, white cis women thought as long as #RoeVWade survived, they could ignore whatever the Christians were saying all along. In the U.S., white and Christian is considered the default, a norm, not scary, not brown or Muslim or pathologized. feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney…

They remained wilfully 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. #RoeVWade #SCOTUS

So successful has white supremacist patriarchy been at convincing white women that they’re lucky to live in the U.S. & 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. #RoeVsWade

White supremacist patriarchy has so successfully lulled white women into a delusion of “Be grateful you don’t live over there” that those same women slept walked their way into the disaster that was Trump and his Supreme Court nominees. feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney… #RoeVsWade #SCOTUS

Liberal or conservative, white women in the U.S. are more obsessed with Muslim women and whatever they think is oppressing Muslim women than they are at recognizing their own oppressions.

I moved to the U.S. in 2000. I've learned that many white Americans have a delusional amount of confidence in their government and its institutions.

No matter how often those of us from authoritarian countries and theocracies, who know to be suspicious of state power and religious fundamentalists, warned and warned, white Americans arrogantly shook their head that it couldn’t happen here.
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And 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 and women in chadors or Afghanistan and women in burqas and refused to believe that their fate awaited you. #RoeVsWade #SCOTUS

But that fate never comes overnight.

For the past 50yrs, some of its most zealous footsoldiers of the patriarchy were white, Christian women–a tag team of white, Christian terrorists, legislators, attorneys general, governors, and judges. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-te… #RoeVsWade

The same women who want to feel superior to Muslim women and so refuse to see anything in their beliefs that consigns them to the subservience and submission they think Muslim women must live with.

“We make the mistake of thinking this is a primarily male movement,” Karissa Haugeberg, author of Women Against Abortion: Inside the Largest Moral Reform Movement of the Twentieth Century. “Really, when you get into all the different arms of the movement, women far outnumber men"

I was shocked to discover just how pervasive religion in politics is in the United States when I moved here in 2000. That religion should play no role in politics is a truism that U.S. media and Americans in general apply only to someone else’s country

It is easy to see theocracy when the theocrats don’t look like you.

But it’s imperative to understand that the theocrats who look like you and those who don’t both follow the same rule book: control desire and control our bodies. #RoeVsWade #SCOTUS

In the world’s most powerful country, the anti-abortion women of the Christian Brotherhood–be they violent or non-violent–stand on the verge of a victory that is the opposite of a social revolution–it is a social regression. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-te… #RoeVsWade #SCOTUS

And unless the United States develops the stomach for a long-overdue reckoning with the white supremacist Christian theocracy that has been unabashed in its destruction of #RoeVsWade, abortion rights will not be the only rights it destroyed.

I have been saying this every fucking month.

And I will keep saying it.

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When Roe v. Wade does go down, the terrorist Raychelle “Shelley” Shannon can gloat that she cleared the path for the attorney general who brought it down, Lynn Fitch, and the Supreme Court justice who sealed its death, Amy Coney Barrett.

Shannon can gloat that terrorism works.

“...local and federal law enforcement struggled to see the primarily white, Christian women who set fire to clinics and stalked providers in their neighbourhoods as dangerous criminals who participated in a coordinated campaign to end abortion,” Karissa Haugeberg

Those same white and Christian women are rarely analysed, examined and pathologized in the way that Muslim women are.

White and Christian are considered default – the harmless norm – in the U.S.

White women are afforded an innocence that is both a reward & leash that ensures they work diligently on behalf of a patriarchy upon which their own livelihood depends.And which they must remember will hurt them because nothing protects you from patriarchy feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney…

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And again:

Fuck the Supreme Court.

Fuck white supremacy.

Fuck theocracy.

Fuck fascism.

And fuck the patriarchy.

Remember the white supremacist, Christian zealots And on #January6, invading the Capitol flying flags for Jesus, and being called out as the antiabortion extremists that abortion providers know them to be. slate.com/news-and-polit… #RoeVsWade #SCOTUS

And still too few are calling out the theocracy that wields power in this country.

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