AntiFash Gordon

I feel like you recently suggested I was being sexist when I thought another journalists characterization of Atomwaffen ignored their white supremacy.

I did because you were, Shane. You jumped in to mansplain Atomwaffen to a female far-right researcher, like she had no idea what she was talking about. Making that kind of bad-faith assumption is sexist. Taking issue with someone’s word choice is not.

Think about it for two seconds— literally no one who has heard of the Atomwaffen is unaware that they’re white supremacists. Why would you make that assumption?

So the statement seemed to lack measure because it made behavior that could easily be on the radical left the issue rather than the open white supremacy. The mention of the flag burning seemed particularly strange.

She was describing what they were doing in their latest recruitment video, Shane. It’s the fact that a white supremacist murder cult is recruiting that alarmed her, not that they were burning a flag. Learn to read with good faith, not like you gotta explain stuff to women.

The post I commented on was about how they were shooting guns and burning flags. And I think the rhetoric that she used there is part of the same rhetoric that ends up demonizing left militant organizations. And I deleted the comment because I didn't want to be shitty.

So if you agreed that was a shitty, sexist thing to do and deleted it, why are you relitigating this now?

My point was to comment that you were mansplaining to a woman who has written more than either of us about the Proud Boys and talking down to her. It sounds like you are taking her work out of context, thinking that you know better, and refuse to hear anyone about it.