i'm not sure we give enough weight to the powerful link between far right extremist views and violence against women. it just keeps showing itself.
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i was researching the origins of an antisemitic meme, happened upon a bizarre 20 year old manifesto, and within half a dozen searches found a citation in a book about domestic violence citing the manifesto author's involvement in the 'fathers' rights movement.'
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in this particular instance, i was looking up the "jews have been expelled from 109 countries" story and found a 1995 manifesto by john knight, a man who has been jailed for refusing to pay child support & wants to repeal the 19th amendment and exile black people from the US.pic.twitter.com/dKFfIu1Znh
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it's a pattern i see over and over and over again. look at john marion king, a superfan of chris the crying nazi cantwell - he ran for school board in indiana as an open white supremacist in 2012. in 2007, he was convicted of choking his 17 year old daughter unconscious.pic.twitter.com/JLLqgwkoSL
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I had some contact with some very active "fathers rights" folks as a journo in the 90s, and I would be very unsurprised if I were to find out they later went all white power. Definitely the same kind of energy
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I worked for a nonprofit focusing on violence against women in the mid-90s and I remember them overrunning listservs to harrass and threaten people. They shut down the best ones that way.
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It's sad that the father's rights movement gets involved or associated with the far right / violence against women so much. There is a sincere need for reform in so far as child support, father's rights and the way some states are mishandling cases.
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There are a ton of assumptions in the way courts courts and society handle things that rely on the same antiquated notions that are hurting women. There's a fork in this path that leads to a lot of positive outcomes but there aren't enough shepherds getting people on it
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Yes domestic violence orgs have been saying this for years!!!
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I would love to see what you found, it sounds very interesting. It does seem to be a step in radicalization.
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So I now see I caught you in the middle of a thread. Sorry about that. Thank you for the work! This guy is a nightmare.
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