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January 6 - March 5, 2023
White nationalists make explicit ideas that are already coded, veiled, or circumscribed in the wider white imagination. Hate is what many white Americans would see if they looked in a fun-house mirror: a distorted but familiar reflection.
Women have been in backrooms and classrooms, chat rooms and newsrooms, boardrooms and bedrooms. Far from being incidental to white nationalism, they are a sustaining feature.
United Daughters of the Confederacy
UDC worked tirelessly to perpetuate the lore of the Lost Cause. Its members edited school textbooks to teach children that slavery didn’t cause the Civil War, rewarded students who wrote essays in support of the Klan, and erected some seven hundred Confederate monuments
“anti-communism was used as an alibi for racism.”
“The potential of the Net for organizations and movements such as ours is enormous. We’re reaching tens of thousands of people who never before had access to our point of view.”
When fellow neo-Nazis said they were jealous that she got to cremate Jews, she told them that she didn’t want to talk about it.
Hate can be understood as a social bond, a complex phenomenon that occurs among people as a
means of mattering and belonging.
Researchers have described the “underlying force” of extremism as “the basic human desire to matter and have meaning in one’s life.” They call this “the quest for personal significance,” and there are three main parts: need, narrative, and network.
Hate becomes a cure for loneliness.
women were both helpmates to servicemen-husbands and soft-power resources in U.S. international relations who augmented U.S. hard power,”
“What does a racist joke do,” writes journalist Joe Bernstein, “except create the cognitive distance necessary to do harm, dissolve the bonds of moral obligation?”
“Since we aren’t physically intimidating, we can get away with saying big things. And let me tell you, the women that I’ve met in this movement can be lionesses, and shield-maidens, and Valkyries.”14
In response to anger from conservative lawmakers, the DHS backed off the report, publicly repudiating Johnson’s work. Over the next few years, the federal government cut resources dedicated to tracking the far right.
Ayla shared the meme on Twitter, where she kept an account under the name Wife with a Purpose. Reactions were swift, and some were furious. “Girl, fuck you,” one Twitter user wrote.
lmaooooo
The website Bossip included Ayla in a roundup of “mediocre mayo packets who spent their whole entire pay day splattering not-very-subtle racism all over Al Gore’s world wide web”
fssbjdjd
Dennis Kucinich
Cynthia McKinney
Recent polls show that fewer than half of American women, including millennials,33 identify as feminist.
jfc
As McRae points out, perhaps the women’s biggest impact was teaching their children “that preserving whiteness and racial segregation mattered more than a high school diploma, a college scholarship, or even Friday night football.
