Thread by @monaeltahawy

The U.S. media remains incapable of saying clearly that this is a white supremacist Christian movement driven by white supremacist, Christian zealots who are patriarchal to the core.

So they hide behind “imposter.” #ChristianNationalism

The U.S. media don’t want to call them zealots, don’t want to call it a theocracy, don’t want to say they’re patriarchal, don’t want to say they’re anti-feminist. They tiptoe around all of this because these are white Christian people, ie “default.” feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-wh…

Because it is difficult to see zealots and theocrats when they look like you

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Because white and Christian women who serve as footsoldiers of the patriarchy and who helped build a theocracy get away with it because they’re white, Christian women. Exhibit A h/t @rerutled

https://twitter.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1551208457092603905

Fed up as I am with the consistent refusal to take seriously the danger of white women like Marjorie Taylor Greene, I suggest you forget the Bechdel Test & follow my If so-and-so was a Muslim Test: If Marjorie Taylor Greene was a Muslim she'd be in Gitmo

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MTG was dangerous & vile long before she was elected but because much of her vileness was directed at Muslims, Black people, and Jews, the GOP shrugged & carried on being craven shits they are,happy to throw their weight behind anyone who brings them votes
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If the white women who stormed the Capitol were Muslim, they would have been called “fanatics” and “extremists,” and vilified for the violence they committed, not constantly remembered by loved ones as the best version of themselves.
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If Amy Coney Barrett was a Muslim, her zealotry would have been pathologized, not earn her a lifetime post on the highest court in the land. feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney… #ChristianNationalism #Theocracy

If Lauren Boebert was a Muslim and tried to take her Glock into the Capitol, she would be expelled and put on trial as a terrorist feministgiant.com/p/a-white-supr…

And every step of the way, the cowardice and racism of the US media has given these dangerous white women a free pass:

Exhibit A

feministgiant.com/p/if-marjorie-… #MarjorieTaylorGreene

Exhibit B

Exhibit C

In a profile of Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch, who is the face of a law that looks set to end the federally protected right to an abortion, the Washington Post did not once use the words “patriarchy” or “feminism” or “white supremacy” feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-wh…

Compare the tip-toeing and the reluctance to call these women what they are – enemies of feminism, foot soldiers and benefactors of the patriarchy, etc – to the fluency in describing the danger and harm of the women of the Muslim Brotherhood whenever they appear in U.S. media.

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So: say white supremacist Christian movement driven by white supremacist, Christian zealots who are patriarchal to the core.

And don't hide behind “imposter.” #ChristianNationalism