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September 1 - September 8, 2020
store. That scene planted a seed in my brain about white women’s singular capacity to sow hate in ways both loud and quiet, blatant and not.
The same is true in America’s contemporary hate movement, where animus is justified, incentivized, learned, and performed. Hate abhors a vacuum. Ritual and action signal belonging and do harm in the same stroke.
Bigotry in America has many branches, some bigger and stronger than others, but they all derive from the same trunk.
i “a movement that stands for everything ultimately stands for nothing.”36
In reality, it loves wielding mothers as symbols more than it does the actual women who bear and (or) raise children.

