THREAD: We need to talk about misogyny, intimate partner violence, and far-right organizing. It's all around us, and we need to acknowledge it:https://apnews.com/dea39b8b45d2471a8c0df817cb9656d0 …
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2) Alt-right and alt-light organizing has two cornerstones-- nationalism and gender politics. Their nationalism isn't always white nationalism. We see multi-ethnic groups like Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys organizing on the basis of Islamophobia and male chauvinism.
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3) For the alt-light, Patriot Prayer organizer Haley Adams has been organizing the
#HimToo movement, which attacks survivors of sexual assault, claiming to "protect" men from false allegations:https://www.npr.org/2018/10/11/656293787/-himtoo-left-and-right-embrace-opposing-takes-on-same-hashtag …1 reply 18 retweets 39 likesShow this thread -
4) Meanwhile, in their secret chats, alt-right Patriot Front talks about organizing "ethnostate rape gangs" to punish white women who don't adhere to "traditional values": https://unicornriot.ninja/2018/americans-fascists-inside-patriot-front/ … (Shoutout to
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5) As researcher Matthew Lyons notes in "Insurgent Supremacists": "Because alt-rightists were explicitly white nationalist, many observers didn’t notice that they also promoted a misogyny so extreme that even many neonazis criticized it." https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=924 …
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Replying to @AntiFashGordon
My ex husband, who works in CA state government, believes in this kind of misogyny. It is so incredibly hateful, cruel, and sadistic that I am scarred for life.
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I'm sorry to hear that, my friend.
I hope you find a community that will love and cherish you the way you deserve. 

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