The alt-right hates women as much as it hates people of colour

[dutch508]

niyad (56,281 posts) https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016184708

The alt-right hates women as much as it hates people of colour
Matthew N Lyons

The alt-right was key in getting Trump into power. But its strain of misogyny differs in sometimes surprising ways to that of the traditional Christian right

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Arthur Jones, chairman of the America First Committee, takes photos at a rally in Pikeville, Kentucky. Photograph: Pat Jarrett


One hundred days on from Donald Trump entering the White House with its help, what will the alt-right do next? The small, loosely organised movement, which has helped to revitalise far-right politics in the United States, has made skilful use of internet activism and has a receptive ear in Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon, who as former head of Breitbart News once proclaimed his network “the platform of the alt-right”. More than shaping White House policy, however, the alt-right’s greatest impact may come from its efforts to shift the political culture.

Although best known for its white nationalist brand of racist ideology, there’s growing recognition that patriarchal politics is also central to the movement. Several observers have pointed out that the alt-right advocates not just white supremacy, but more specifically white male supremacy, that the movement feeds on “toxic resentment of women”, and that sexism serves as a “gateway drug” pulling a lot of young men into it. The few alt-right women who have been profiled embrace their own subordination.

Missing from these accounts is a recognition that the alt-right is reshaping patriarchal politics. Its version of male supremacy is not just more explicit or aggressive – it’s strikingly different from the version that’s been dominant among US rightists for decades.

Consider abortion. Some alt-rightists, unsurprisingly, argue that abortion is simply immoral and should be banned. Yet many others in the movement disagree – and for reasons that have nothing to do with respecting women’s autonomy or privacy. These alt-rightists support legal abortion because, they claim, it’s disproportionately used by black and Latina women and, secondarily, because they see it as a way to weed out “defective” white babies. In other words, they support abortion as a form of eugenics. Both sides of this internal alt-right debate agree that women have no business controlling their own bodies. As Greg Johnson of the alt-right website Counter-Currents put it, “in a White Nationalist society … some abortions should be forbidden, others should be mandatory, but under no circumstances should they simply be a matter of a woman’s choice”.

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/02/alt-right-hates-women-non-white-trump-christian-right-abortion

they really have no clue.

niyad (56,281 posts)
4. as somebody pointed out, they do their best not to encounter POC, but there are women

EVERYWHERE!

 

Star Member Hortensis (14,594 posts)
5. Hate's a very overused and misused word. Let's face it,

a lot of ultraconservative men like some women personally, same as relationships many have with individuals of other color. Even if they despise them...?

That said, I don't see a lot of difference between bigotry against blacks and bigotry against women. IS there really any? Or do they just play out differently?

A great of the anxiety that's stimulating bigots into acting out increased hostility toward both women and nonwhites is from the tremendous changes in society and the roles people play in it.

To put it mildly, hard-core cons do not do change and uncertainty well. Pathetic little worms, really.

But in this case I expect they are going to positively hate their inevitable failure to "change" us back to the 19th century. Most may calm down somewhat in another, more balanced era, but they're doomed to perpetual resentment and unhappiness and will die that way. We need to make sure that's their problem.

Itm, let's remember that they're still being fired and having to resign from positions when they reveal their bigotry. Also losing social relationships. That really hasn't changed for all their bigoted, misogynistic, white nationalist noise.

[thundley4]

These alt-rightists support legal abortion because, they claim, it’s disproportionately used by black and Latina women and, secondarily, because they see it as a way to weed out “defective” white babies. In other words, they support abortion as a form of eugenics.

Those must be the democrats that crossed over to support Trump. Those are the same reasons that Margaret Sanger, the hero of the left, promoted abortion.

[SVPete]

Is the undefined term "alt-right" in the process of replacing the undefined term "neocon" as Libs' & Progs' Bogeyman-in-Chief?

To the degree any misogynists or racists or anti-Semites voted for Trump, he has repudiated them in the form of the people he has chosen to be key members of his administration. If Libs and Progs want to know who those people are, Libs and Progs just need to look at what women and minorities and Jews Libs and Progs have been hating on and demonizing the past 5 or 6 months.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Apparently Sarah Palin, Nikki Haley, Kelley-Anne Conway, Laura Ingraham, Michelle Malkin and Anne Coulter could not be reached for comment.

[SVPete]

Apparently Sarah Palin, Nikki Haley, Kelley-Anne Conway, Laura Ingraham, Michelle Malkin and Anne Coulter could not be reached for comment.

Nor Betsy DeVos or Elaine Chao, evidently.

[jukin]

I love the pranks the chan4 does. Right out of that old misogynistic communist bastard, Alinsky's playbook. That is why the fascist left hates on them so much, using the left's tactics against them is verbottern!!