Thread by @monaeltahawy

Every time Ashli Babbitt trends,I will remind you:

Ashli Babbitt never imagined the Capitol Police would shoot her because the police rarely shoot white women, unless it’s a cop who shoots his wife at home. #AshliBabbitt #January6th feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…

Babbitt's mother apparently thinks #Jan6th “was an inspiring, uplifting patriotic day. It was a happy moment in her life. She just got to see Trump speak," and blames Capitol police and the FBI for the violence of that day.

Even when they join an insurrection, even as they pummel their way through the doors that held back the mob braying for violence from the upper echelons of the U.S. govt, white women are still remembered for the best versions of themselves.

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

feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…

Again and again, the audacity of white womanhood obscures and obfuscates the violence that white women are allowed to get away with.
feministgiant.com/p/if-marjorie-…

Imagine the authorities profiling, pursuing, entrapping, and surveilling white women, especially now that we know how eager they were to join an insurrection, including Babbitt, a veteran who zealously carried out here what she was trained to do overseas. feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…

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

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